On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:22:30AM +0100, Pinco wrote: > > I have a certain number of text editors - vi, gedit, emcs etc. - do I > need all of them? Which one(s) do you suggest me to uninstall? ... > Nino Mr. Pinco should install "pico" of Pine fame. Mr. Nino should install "nano". More seriously.... install vi (vim) and any GUI text editor that you like. "gedit" is ok as a first editor. All editors are personal preference. Learning Emacs and Xemacs is a project. But once learned the rewards are substantial for a programmer. Since you are asking I would say skip the emacs stuff. vim (improved vi) is very cool and if it existed way back when, emacs might not be so famous. vim has context filters that make editing many system config files a bit less painful. I have grown to like vim a lot (but I am using emacs now ;-). If you want the space uninstall one or both emacs and xemacs. You can reinstall any of them later! Editors very quickly become a personal thing. Almost none are simple so pick one and learn it. On RH/Fedora "vim" is a good choice to learn. Speaking of learn does anyone have a working copy of the old BSD program "learn". "learn" had lots of vi and ex tricks that saved my bacon way back when. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage. mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
