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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 20:43 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)In reply to: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) by allesfresser Parent article: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)
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).
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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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% cat << FOO >> file.c
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. ;-)
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