I'm surprised that more posters didn't advocate vim as *the* editor. I think it is linux world that did a survey and found that 80 percent of the users picked vim as their favorite editor.
I originally started using vim, then switched to nedit, and now have switched back to vim. Nedit if very nice, but I had problems with keyboard commands. About half the time when I would press keys like <cntrl> z to undo a command, I would get a "^ack" or something like that on the screen. I can see why vim is the most popular linux editor. It is extremelly powerful. It has all sorts of options for automatic inenting, as well as a feature called folding, which I still have to learn how to use; it bascially hides lines on your screen. So if you were working between your main program and a subroutine 1000 lines below, you could hide those thousand lines. Of course, vim as full highlighting capabilities. Vim offers so many options that I doubt I could learn them all. The drawback to vim is that it is a bit hard to learn at first. It is keyboard driven, which goes against how most people learn to operate a computer, with a mouse. Of course, there is full graphical interface version of vim, which I use, called gvim. Once you get over the initial difficulty of learning vim (which should only take a few days?), then it can be easier to use, depending on your preferences. Vim is also one hundred percent free--as is Nedit. I wouldn't pay for an editor, with all the excellent free choices out there. But nedit is also a good choice as an editor. It is very intuitive and also powerful. Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
