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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

Posted Aug 26, 2008 20:20 UTC (Tue) by holstein (subscriber, #6122)
Parent article: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

Well, at least according to allesfresser, there is Joe missing.

If we get to also include the IDE category, there is also a lot of them missing: Eric (3 or 4), Eclipse, NetBeans, ...

And there's the Vi clone ; Elvis, NVI, ... And the Emacs clone (don't want to start an Holy War)

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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

Posted Aug 26, 2008 20:34 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The choice of features was profoundly peculiar. You certainly can't
compare it across editors, or you'd conclude that vim has more features
than Emacs: and vim, while heavier-weight than vi, is surely not in the
Emacs kitchen-sink league yet.

I suspect the real criterion for feature selection was 'does the list
roughly fit on a screen yet? No? Think up some more.'

Full-featured editors omitted from the list

Posted Aug 26, 2008 22:40 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

Don't forget OpenOffice Writer as a text editor. It does have lots of features, you know.

While we're at it, how 'bout Windows Notepad running in WINE? Of course, we could then add MS Word based on that criteria, but I'm just being silly by now. I actually did use Notepad/WINE once to edit a text file, and I'm still trying to figure out what I was thinking (or consuming!) when doing so....

:-D