It heavily depends on your needs.
* vi, vim and gvim are quite good for everyday administration, and if you are a sysadmin you definitely have to know how to use them, because they most likely would be the only kind of editor available on a rescue CD or in single user mode;
* gedit or whatever is its counterpart on KDE is easier but less powerful; also, the won't work on a text console;
* emacs has an ugly key-binding scheme, but tons of documentation, tons of "plugins" for almost every programming language you may think of, and is reasonably fast; as vi, you definitely must use it everyday if you want to use it at all: if you stop for a couple of months, you will never remember even which keys must be pressed to open a file... emacs can be installed to work in a text console, so it is available even i single user mode;
* jedit, nice, but heavy, forget it on older hardware. It needs X to work, so it's not intended for the sysadmin.
This list could continue with at least 100 more items, some of which are already in this thread...
Best regards.
Adam Boettiger wrote:
I searched the archives of this list under "text editor" and found no results, so am asking...
In Mac OSX there is a text editor called BBEdit http://www.barebones.com/ that is absolutely phenominal for text editing and coding.
In Windows there is TextPad http://www.textpad.com/.
The built-in text editor that comes with Fedora does not come close to either of these. What else can I YUM for that will?
TIA
AB
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