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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)Posted Aug 26, 2008 19:33 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)Parent article: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)
Of course, somebody has to complain that their favorite editor got left out completely, and I guess it has to be me: when in a terminal window (which is a lot of the time), I prefer joe. Yes, I'm weird. But it works for me.
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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 26, 2008 20:20 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]
My favorite editor was also left out: NEdit. It's awesome and I've been using it for 15 years.
nedit Posted Aug 26, 2008 20:36 UTC (Tue) by johnkarp (guest, #39285) [Link]
'Me too'. I got used to it on Irix machines some time ago, now I can't stand any other X11-based editor. (For small administrative tasks in the terminal, I use whatever is available, but prefer nano.)
I do worry about its future; it uses Motif as its toolkit, which is on its way out.
xedit! Posted Aug 26, 2008 21:12 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
nedit? Bah. I know one guy who's favourite editor is xedit. He is believed
sane.
nedit Posted Aug 26, 2008 22:54 UTC (Tue) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link]
Can also use lesstif (a Motif clone). Essentially, even if Motif disappears
or your system doesn't have Motif libraries, lesstif is still around so you should have no problems. I have a feeling someone may be GTK-ising it somewhere too.
nedit Posted Aug 27, 2008 1:00 UTC (Wed) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587) [Link] Nedit is (was?) great, though it has been showing its age for a while: the lack of support for anti-aliased fonts does grate the eye.
nedit Posted Aug 26, 2008 21:43 UTC (Tue) by alextingle (subscriber, #20593) [Link]
Nedit gets my vote, too.
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 27, 2008 17:11 UTC (Wed) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link]
Same here. I use NEdit and vim.
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 26, 2008 20:25 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]
Yay for joe. Joe users unite! :)
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 27, 2008 1:54 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]
You too? Maybe we need a Fedora Joe SIG.
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 27, 2008 7:34 UTC (Wed) by Bisqwit (guest, #29589) [Link]
Me three. Joe rules. Especially now that it has syntax highlighting (finally)! :)
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 26, 2008 20:38 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
Joe's good, yeah. I used to make that available to less savvy users who needed something friendlier than vi.
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 26, 2008 20:43 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Well, nano made the list, and it's a clone of pico. On my Slackware box, jpico is a symlink to joe. So, perhaps a near relative of your preferred editor is on the list. And I don't think it's weird that you prefer using joe; it's a decent editor that works well for a lot of users. And besides, I use KWrite (which didn't make the list, either, although Kate [a similar editor] did).
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 26, 2008 21:51 UTC (Tue) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010) [Link]
Kate has the virtue of handling very large files correctly. I had to do some surgery on a 7 MB Radmind transcript and Kate was quick at it. These days I really hate to see editors designed to do operations on an entire file pulled into memory. That same 7 MB file brought kedit to it's knees on a 3.5 GB machine.
Kate also has a friendly take on project orientation. It has syntax highlighting for a number of languages and seems a decent programmer's editor.
Others have mentioned Joe and that is my favorite console editor as well. It also does a classy job on big files.
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 26, 2008 22:32 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
*Seven* megabytes is large? I thought Emacs and XEmacs had suboptimal
handling of large files because of their hundreds-megabyte-range buffer size limits and slow end-of-line detection in such buffers... but any editor which eats gigabytes of memory loading in 7Mb deserves throwing out. More, it deserves ritual burning, in front of the editor's developers, following which those developers should be restricted to a ZX81 for the next year or so (until they learn better).
Anything else would just be extremism.
Bloat I say, bloat!! Posted Aug 27, 2008 1:51 UTC (Wed) by zenaan (subscriber, #3778) [Link]
sed is your friend:
From:
>> I would hope so, tomorrow will be 21.1's 3rd birthday! (I wasn't able
The most recent release of Emacs was 21.3, which was released about a
My impression is that Tom was previously using something like Emacs
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ed?! What luxury! In the days ... it was echo and cat for us...
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Oh, maybe you have a luxury shell with echo built in :)
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Bloat I say, bloat!! Posted Aug 27, 2008 2:20 UTC (Wed) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]
I loved that episode of Monty Python! :-)
Smooth I say, Emacs is smooth!! Posted Aug 27, 2008 10:03 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Emacs 22 came out march this year. Its got masses of features, all of which stay out of your way but are easy to discover, get documentation for, and see the source code of. Its core design goal is for users to be able to modify its behaviour, and after 32 years of use and developement, its very rich, and very smoothest. It opens 256Mb files no problem.
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 27, 2008 9:13 UTC (Wed) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959) [Link] to be fair, when you start kedit and attempt to open a large file (I tried the aforementioned 7 MB), it popped up a dialog box that said: The file you have requested is larger than KEdit is designed for. Please ensure you have enough system resources available to safely load this file, or consider using a program that is designed to handle large files such as KWrite. This seems to imply that it was deliberate in some way... [and although I normally avoid cliches like the plague, you can take my Vim away from my cold, dead fingers!]
Like the Plague Posted Aug 27, 2008 19:18 UTC (Wed) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026) [Link] You say you avoid clichés "like the plague"? I don't believe you. ;-)
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 26, 2008 22:58 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
Absolutely. And mcedit. In fact, both of these two are all purposes I ever need (and vi for ye older unix systèmes), so why you even need to know 21 remains a riddle.
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 27, 2008 0:47 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] I used jed, now joe (jmacs) as a lightweight (x)emacs replacement for quick jobs.
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 27, 2008 5:10 UTC (Wed) by moxfyre (guest, #13847) [Link] when in a terminal window (which is a lot of the time), I prefer joe. Yes, I'm weird. But it works for me.You're in good company... I'm a JOE fan too. It's more noob-friendly than either Emacs or VI, has straightforward online help, and offers syntax highlighting. And it is fast fast fast to load and small small small... the binary is smaller than vim.tiny. It is as easy to use as Nano/Pico, without being so lacking in useful features. I greatly prefer JOE to Vim. I wish it were part of most distros' default installs...
21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) Posted Aug 29, 2008 18:44 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]
I used Joe for awhile some years back, but I haven't touched it in awhile. I've been sold on Vim.
You can blame my conversion to C from Pascal. When I first encountered Joe, I was competent (but not expert) in VI, and still had the Wordstar keybindings programmed into my fingers from years of using Turbo Pascal. ^K B, ^K K, ^K C...
But, as I used VI more and more with C, especially fun shortcuts such as <% and >% to change block indentation, or d% to delete a block (and p to put it back somewhere else), it edged those bindings out of my head. That's also around the same time my default C coding style changed to put the opening curly bracket on its own line, lined up with the closing bracket. These shortcuts work much better with that style than the K&R style.
(Whoo hoo... I can combine an editor debate into a C style debate!)
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