Alternatives to Gedit
 

Hi everyone I am trying to figure out if there is an alternative to gedit. I would like to install hadoop onto my Mac and in order to do that, I have to disable IPv6, which involves gedit.

The command is: sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

I am having issues installing gedit, so I would like to find some other way to achieve the same result without gedit.

Also, I don't quite understand where the path /etc/sysctl.conf is coming from.

Help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Are you just looking for another text editor?

In that case...I use leafpad.

For a lot more suggestions...https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...s#Graphical_12

My favorite text editor is kate, though I'm trying to learn more about vim.

Oh OK so I just did sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf.

Thanks!

Just a piece of advice, learn vi (or vim) mate. It works across all flavors of Unix.

Cheers

/etc/sysctl.conf is the default configuation file for sysctl

I agree with vikas027 in that you should be familiar with vi.

I personally use gnuemacs; have done so for probably 20 years and find that it's a very good code editor.

However I do use gedit, Notepad, Wordpad, and the editors for Visual Studio, and the Android Development Toolkit editor.

I recommend refining your capabilities to type.

My point there is that I feel there is no "end all; be all" editor; there are always new ones and I find that having the capability to type well has always served me.

Gnuemacs is my comfort level, I know it very well and wherever I can install and use it, I do.

But I'm never the type of person who sits down at an unfamiliar system/terminal and then abruptly complains that I can't do anything because I'm so tied to one particular editor.

I think you need to sometimes use gksudo instead or some command like that.

I'd wonder why you have trouble installing gedit.


You can find maybe 25 or so good tools to use. A small group is here. http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20...7/Editors.html

Then I should try to move on from nano?

I would say yes. It is always better to learn what is common in all *nix flavors.

nano isn't included with most distros? And I think I recall seeing a how-to that told you how to install vi...

...but I've only been with Linux for a year, so your experience is definitely more broad than mine :D

Nano may or may not included in all distros by default. And it is not the default editor of distros too. For example, cron uses vi by default in RedHat based distros, HP-UX, AIX and Solaris as well.

You might have seen a How-To to install vim (not vi). ;)

That was probably it...and actually, it was part of a how-to on something else, and the author described how to install it if you didn't have it.

Back when I was writing code for a living (for DOS), the editor used was part of the programmer's "fingerprint" and we all liked something different. I used Qedit for nearly 20 years until I finally made the switch to Windows - and I quit coding about this time. I still have my directory of DOS programming tools, including my copy of Turbo C, Turbo Pascal and Turbo BASIC (yes, I liked Borland products), tucked away somewhere. Fond memories...