On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 05:56:52PM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> What is, according to the list members experiences, the best X based
> text editor(s) for Linux RH6.x?
Well, I "only" use Red Hat 5.2 and Solaris at work ;-) but in both
cases, my choices are:
Programming (Perl, HTML, C, LaTeX):
large chunks:
XEmacs, with pc-select.el (makes the usage for copy and paste very
similar to DOS editors, i.e. Shift+MOVEMENTKEY to mark, Ctrl-Insert to
paste and things like that) and some other keyboard shortcut
modifications. I like its keyboard shortcuts for common tags/construcs,
the auto-indentation (IMHO better than Vim here), syntax highlighting
and the fact that you can integrate it with LaTeX and your compiler
(haven't used the gdb interface yet). I also love the simple way I can
use keyboard macros, though I think that's implemented by some extension
I use (haven't used plain XEmacs in a good while).
smaller chunks:
gvim. Is a good bit faster to start up, has good syntax highlighting as
well (actually a bit easier to adapt to new languages than XEMacs', I
think), but I simply can't stand the modal interface for long pieces of
text/code and I'm missing my built-in shortcuts (especially in HTML mode
- XEmacs' HTML mode is excellent, I think). It's ok for me for smaller
things and I've already started messing with keyboard bindings to get it
a bit closer the XEmacs bindings (Shift+cursorkey works... ;-) ).
What I *do* love, though, is the easy way of doing regexp replacements -
it's a bit clunkier in XEmacs, me thinks.
Mails and very short texts (e.g. simple shell scripts):
plain vim, again with extensive keyboard redefinitons. Fast to start up
and reasonably easy to use.
Does highlighting as well if running in a colour capable terminal.
I tried other editors as well (pico, nedit, textedit (Solaris)), but
that's ages ago and I didn't like any of them... I think XEmacs + Vim is
a pretty powerful combination which will most likely do everything and
the kitchensink... ;-)
HTH,
Thomas
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