Editors

**COKE CAN** · 08-02-2005

Which editors are the best with fair ease of use?

oz · 08-02-2005

GUI, or command line?

**jlgreer1** · 08-02-2005

For simplicity, I would suggest jed. It is very small and has a menu interface and syntax highlighting if you are programming or writing scripts.

Jeff

**drakebasher** · 08-02-2005

Command line:

Nano
Pico
Joe
vi Old school, not intuitve, guaranteed to be there

Gui:

gedit
Kate

Midnight Commander ('mc') has a built-in editor.

**bryansmith** · 08-02-2005

Pico all the way!!!!!!!!!

For gui, gedit (gnome) or kate (kde).

Bryan

**lakerdonald** · 08-02-2005

I'm a fan of nano, but if the system doesn't have it, pico or joe will suffice. In the gui, nothing touches gedit, unless I'm doing certain types of programming, then GNU Emacs' syntax hilighting, indentation, and the power to do so much with your programs (compile, run, etc.) is unmatched. But nano/joe/pico if I just want Notepad.exe

**Gullible Jones** · 08-02-2005

For the GUI, gVim. Yes, I know, based on vi, etc... But it has syntax highlighting and a built-in manual, and isn't that hard to use. Basically, all you have to know when you start using it is that 'a' or 'i' turns on insert mode and esc turns it off.

For the command line, nano is okay, but it completely lacks syntax highlighting.

**lakerdonald** · 08-02-2005

However, on Gentoo, nano does have some nice syntax rules for ebuilds (just have to uncomment some stuff in /etc/nanorc IIRC)

**drakebasher** · 08-03-2005

Originally Posted by bryansmith

For gui, gedit (gnome) or kate (kde).

I use Gnome and I have both gedit and kate. Both are easy to use and easy to look at.

oz · 08-03-2005

gui = SciTE or gvim
cli = vim

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