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Editors are like religions, so at the risk of starting a holy war...

Vi and clones

vim

You might prefer to install vim-full as your vi-clone, which has extended features. You can have more information about vim here

gvim

You can use a ?GUI version of vim, like vim-gnome, vim-gtk, vim-lesstif.

Emacs

?Emacs. Some people think it is a mutated and bloated Lisp system trying to disguise itself as a text editor. However, today it is fast enough and once some commands have been learned it is quite powerful. Furthermore, there are auto-indent and syntax highlighting options for many file formats such as programming languages or ?LaTeX, and config files such as ~/.muttrc and ~/.procmailrc. If you know Lisp, you can customize Emacs to any extent you like. I would advise to stick to verstion 20.x, since the 21.x -versions contain unneeded and annoying graphical "improvements" (on the other hand, there are ways to turn these "improvements" off; see "Notes"). In Debian, a version of ?emacs is installed by default.

Notes

  • Dump the stupid (non-traditional) icon bar: (tool-bar-mode nil)

  • Turn off the bleeping^Wblinking cursor: (blink-cursor-mode nil)

Wish list

For those who find vi cryptic and emacs ugly or confusing, there are a variety of alternatives. "jed" (or "xjed") is a full-featured emacs-like editor with colour support menus, etc. Note, the testing release is much improved over the version in potato.

  • gnotepad (command gnp).

  • gedit

  • mcedit

  • nano

  • ed

  • SciTE

  • kate

  • kwrite

Nano

  • Nano is an easy to learn and use text file editor.
  • install:
    aptitude install nano
  • Practice using nano before you really need it.
  • you need command line interface [also called CLI ] to use nano. see CommandLineInterface

  • to start nano enter: nano
    • at bottom of screen are some common commands. '^' means press the control key.
      • so ^W is the command to search. press control + W ....
      • ^O to save the file
      • ^X to exit
      • ^G for help



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