[SLUG] recommendations for a text editor for programming

[Jamie Adams]

> On Tuesday 16 Nov 2004 10:13 am, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> > Hiya
> >
> > What text editors do you use for programming?
> >
> > I used to use and like TexPad. Emacs for Gnome seems a bit hairy. I
> > don't want to keep flicking back to the console as I have that bug
> > where sometimes when I come back to graphics there's nothing, just a
> > blank screen. So something in Gnome would be cool. Line numbers, split
> > screen, a sensible tab indent, that sort of thing.

I don't reckon you can go too far wrong with Vim. If you don't want to
use the console, gvim, the gnome port works great. I even use it on
windows.

As an alternative, Kate gets a second vote from me.

Jamie