[Novalug] Editors thread was vi help, please
Bonnie Dalzell
bdalzell@qis.net
Mon Dec 28 10:54:58 EST 2009
This got me thinking about editors so I did a recent search within
Synaptic and came up with a very large list. I also fetched most of them
to try out.
I will try and post some sort of organized set of comments. So far they
divide into terminal editors and gui window editors.
The most important variables to me are
Keystroke macros?
Block selection?
Contextual highlighting for code
Layout of file selection requestor
Just at first glance - Some things that appear in some but not others
Gedit has a sort function
Kwrite has a nifty ability to highlight a block between selected parens,
brackets, etc
X2 at http://www.tangbu.com/x2downld.htm
at first I hd problems downloading it with Epiphany but when I choose
"save link as" rather than just clicking on the link it did download.
I took both the Linux version and the XWing beta. The XWing beta runs OK
on my Ubuntu system under wine. It does seem to have a macro recorder and
it has a more attractive presentation than nedit.
The linux version I was able to launch seems to be terminal based (i tried
both x and xx) which means it does not have a set of menus. Looks like I
will have to read the documentation before being able to do much with the
linux version. The XWing beta under wine is useable from the start
due to the menu system. Clicking on the icons for the menus at the top
brings up the menu items in small requestors.
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