Re: [UUG/MLUG] simple text editor

[David Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

How about nedit?  It does syntax highlighting and it's a bit easier to
wrap your brain around than emacs.  

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Dave Lloyd

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Neil Bradshaw wrote:

> There should be a man page for pico. If they aren't on your computer, go
> to http://www-st.towson.edu/docs/pine3.93/.
> 
> Regards,
> Neil
> 
> Steve Bohm wrote:
> > 
> > Try using PICO.  It's a full-screen text editor.  I like it a lot.. lots of
> > keyboard shortcuts so it's real handy to use.  I dunno if there's a man
> > page on it or not, but you can try ("man pico").
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > Jeff Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > > I recently made the switch to Linux from Windoze.  (hooray)  One of the
> > > programs I use more than anything is a simple text editor, mainly for
> > > HTML.  I can't find one I like on Linux.  Emacs is way more complicated
> > > than I need.  Vi might be OK, if I learned how to use it effectively.
> > > But I prefer something at least vaguely graphic (I guess it's the
> > > windoze in me).  gEdit would be OK except it seems to crash a lot even
> > > by windoze standards... I don't know what the problem is there.
> > > gnotepad+ might be OK too, but it has HTML-specific stuff, which I
> > > really don't want or need.  Plus, both suffer from the problem of
> > > wrapping text to the window width, instead of allowing infinite lines
> > > needed for HTML.  I was unimpressed by the KDE editors too.  On windoze,
> > > I was quite fond of the PFE (Programmer's File Editor) program.  It was
> > > like Notepad, but allowed infinite file size, infinite number of files
> > > open at once, and many nice things beyond Notepad.  Much to my dismay, I
> > > just discovered today that the author has ditched development :(  Of
> > > course, it's a windoze program, so the source code isn't available
> > > (well, *nothing* is available now).  If I ever learn how to program (er,
> > > I mean *when*), my first venture will be to port PFE to Linux ;)
> > >
> > > Anyway, there's tons of text editors out there; I was just hoping
> > > someone knew of a particular editor that might fit my needs.  It would
> > > be much appreciated.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > -jeff
>