[dundee] Text editor decision question

[Paul Lancaster]

Faced with a similar decision, borders solved it, I'm now the proud owner of 
O'Reilly's vi Editor pocket reference

;)

Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lug at seany.us>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [dundee] Text editor decision question


> Haven't used emacs in years, but how about nano?
>
> Its fairly decent for most things and displays shortcut keys at the bottom 
> for reference.
>
> Also try vim, the enhanced version of vi. To quote:
>
> Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming 
> that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, 
> though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email 
> to editing configuration files.
>
> Regards,
> Sean McRobbie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Iain Barnett" <iainspeed at gmail.com>
> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Friday, 26 June, 2009 02:18:04 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, 
> Portugal
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Text editor decision question
>
> On 25 Jun 2009, at 4:10 pm, Kris Davidson wrote:
>>
>> which editor do you use and why?, have you tried both etc? Does it
>> depend on your particular field of computing, do genuine programmers
>> lean towards one, while Sysadmin and networking people another?
>>
>> Kris
>
> anything terminal based, I use Vi. The key binding are easy to
> remember for the most used things, otherwise it's just
> straightforward editing.
>
> Emacs, I've found it to be fiddly and I always forget the key
> bindings, and the auto-complete modes I've used on it are a bit poo.
> Support for less used modes is worse than on Eclipse.
> TextWrangler on a Mac (no autocomplete but lots of very nice
> features). TextMate was alright for a while but I didn't want to pay
> for it.
> Eclipse, probaby good for Java but I don't use Java, for most else
> I've used it for (Perl, Haskell, C#) it's a bit lacking. And it takes
> forever to start up. I like the idea behind Mylyn though.
> On Windoze nothing beats Visual Studio. In fact, nothing I've used so
> far beats Visual Studio for programming, give MS their credit. (not
> that it's perfect, by a long way)
>
> It's my long held ambition to write a lightweight text editor with
> autocomplete, the most useful feature ever, IMO. I won't be using
> Emacs to write it :)
>
> Actually, Applescript Studio isn't bad. Pity it's just Applescript
> and Mac!
>
> Iain
>
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