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View Poll Results: What do you prefer to use for editing text on Slackware? (Not word processing)
emacs in graphical mode
14
9.33%
geany
12
8.00%
gedit
3
2.00%
gvim
17
11.33%
kate
20
13.33%
leafpad
3
2.00%
libreoffice / openoffice
0
0%
leafpad
2
1.33%
one of the ncurses editors (vi, emacs -nw, joe, jove, etc)
I tried to build Nedit, which I've been using in the past. It builds fine, but some of the menus are empty. I tried playing with X resources in order to change the font, but never got it working properly. It's a pity. I think I used it back in 1999 for the first time.
I just installed it from SBo, and everything seems to work. Could you tell us exactly which menus are empty and what does not work (maybe in another thread)?
For instance to use Emacs or Vi as a full text editor instead (or chess simulator for the former =] )?
But i do prefer mcedit over many editors for how quick the learning curve is (for me at least) and how the ncurses interact with X, gpm and still work over serial lines etc.
The MC suite is a prime example of utility over appearance IMO.
I always liked being able to go right into an editor with a file from mc without having to drop back to a terminal. If I just want to see the contents of a file I hit F3 to view instead of F4 to edit .... lazy ... I know.
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Originally Posted by montagdude
Just FYI, you can change the editor that mc runs with F3/F4 ...
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Originally Posted by justwantin
Why would I want to that?
You personally probably wouldn't since you already like mcedit, but your post implied that you have to drop back to a terminal if you want to use a different editor. My post was intended to clarify that that is not the case, and in fact it is just as convenient to use a different editor in mc if desired.
Whenever I'm in a GUI, my editor of choice is kwrite (I happen to like the syntax highlighting). Does that count as Kate? Since kwrite basically uses Kate as a "syntax highlighting engine".
Whenever I'm in the good old CLI, I use mcedit and no other editor.
Sometimes (rather often) when navigating to a folder in Konqueror, I just F4 and mcedit something.
Or if I know the exact path of what I'm looking for, I just open a Konsole terminal and mcedit /where/it/is
Just out of interest, Does anyone use joe/jmacs/jstar, or jed?
My father does. He's running Slackware 14.1 on his laptop, and was delighted to find a wordstar-like already installed. jstar is his everyday-use text editor.
For instance to use Emacs or Vi as a full text editor
I'm not about to ssh into my shop or garden shed just so I can use a "full text editor" and I'm quite happy with the key bindings I remember when needs be, no need to overtax the remaining memory banks.
Perhaps we could drop this before it becomes more than it is. Its more fun passing the odd jibe to someone I know who prefers the challenge of programming arduinos with emacs over a pot of Guinness before our monthly MLUG than as a tangent off the original topic of this thread.
Last edited by justwantin; 06-01-2017 at 08:33 PM.
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My father does. He's running Slackware 14.1 on his laptop, and was delighted to find a wordstar-like already installed. jstar is his everyday-use text editor.
Yes, I like jstar too, that's why I asked. I use it for writing natural text documents when I don't really want to use a modal editor; programming/editing config files I do in vim (I used to use elvis for that until the switch to utf8 which it doesn't support).
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kwrite and mcedit
