21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks) [LWN.net]

21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

Posted Aug 27, 2008 5:10 UTC (Wed) by moxfyre (guest, #13847)
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)

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...

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