"21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors" without NEdit

[Bert Wesarg]

Wow,

LinuxLinks.com has an article[1] about text editors and NEdit is missing.

Regards
Bert

[1] http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080824052425167/Editors.html

[John Ferrier]

At least I know nedit is MUCH BETTER AND MORE POWERFUL than gedit!

I have to say the most people cannot distinguish good and bad - not to offend, but this is true.



--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg-gM/Ye1E23mwN+***@public.gmane.org> wrote:
From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg-gM/Ye1E23mwN+***@public.gmane.org>
Subject: "21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors" without NEdit
To: "General NEdit discussion list" <discuss-***@public.gmane.org>
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:56 AM

Wow,

LinuxLinks.com has an article[1] about text editors and NEdit is missing.

Regards
Bert

[1] http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080824052425167/Editors.html
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[Thomas Orgis]

Am Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:05:20 -0700 (PDT)

Post by John Ferrier
At least I know nedit is MUCH BETTER AND MORE POWERFUL than gedit!
I have to say the most people cannot distinguish good and bad - not to offend, but this is true.

Well... I have more and more trouble explaining to people why I use a noob editor (i.e. not vim or emacs;-) that is not even capable of handling UTF-8 (or different encodings at all).
It is useful for programming, with texts in english... but, well, we know the issue.

But still, I hope we get that version 5.6 out... also wondering if that will work with lesstif 0.95.0 (there's a bit of potential trouble with openmotif not really being "free").


Alrighty then,

Thomas.

[Andrew Hood]

Post by John Ferrier
At least I know nedit is MUCH BETTER AND MORE POWERFUL than gedit!
I have to say the most people cannot distinguish good and bad - not to offend, but this is true.
Subject: "21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors" without NEdit
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:56 AM
Wow,
LinuxLinks.com has an article[1] about text editors and NEdit is missing.
Regards
Bert
[1] http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080824052425167/Editors.html

Looks like GUI editors only got considered if they used GTK or Qt.

[Randy Kramer]

Post by Andrew Hood
Looks like GUI editors only got considered if they used GTK or Qt.

I can see why you said that, but if you look down under "Source Code" editors
they list Geany and Scite, which use scintilla, and not, iiuc, either Qt or
GTK.

Randy Kramer

[wwp]

Hello Randy,

Post by Randy Kramer

Post by Andrew Hood
Looks like GUI editors only got considered if they used GTK or Qt.

I can see why you said that, but if you look down under "Source Code" editors
they list Geany and Scite, which use scintilla, and not, iiuc, either Qt or
GTK.

Er.. Geany uses scintilla and GTK. IIRC scintilla is just the text
processing/renderer engine, not the app-wide graphical toolkit (still
IIRC, scintilla is win32 and GTK+ -oriented and has several bindings to
common toolkits).


Regards,

[Randy Kramer]

Post by wwp
Er.. Geany uses scintilla and GTK. IIRC scintilla is just the text
processing/renderer engine, not the app-wide graphical toolkit (still
IIRC, scintilla is win32 and GTK+ -oriented and has several bindings to
common toolkits).

wwp,

Oops, yes, you're right! (And I read the line right above the one in the
review that said that ;-)

I just started playing around with jEdit this morning, and I'm finding a fair
amount to like for a person that "needs" folding (and some not to like, in
general).

Randy Kramer

[Thomas Orgis]

Am Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:09:35 -0400

Post by Randy Kramer
I just started playing around with jEdit this morning, and I'm finding a fair
amount to like for a person that "needs" folding (and some not to like, in
general).

Well, jEdit may have features... but it is far beyond my potential of patience to work with it.
It takes _time_ to react to my commands with this editor.

I know someone who uses jEdit extensively... he is a far more patient person than I am.

Well, that's the trouble: You want features but you do not want bloat...


Alrighty then,

Thomas.