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In my opinion text editor preference is a personal thing. Slackware ships with quite a few editors: elvis, vim, emacs, joe, kate and probably a few others.
As for running SlackBuild scripts, you might want to read SlackBuild Usage HOWTO. As long as you have a full install, follow the directions for running SlackBuild scripts and read the appropriate files in the SlackBuild (README, *.info) you shouldn't run into many problems.
There's ark in kde series. mc, I guess, is similar in a way, and you should have it by now. It would be surprising if you didn't like ANY of the shipped editors, but at the moment you are missing kde apps and emacs. Do you have a particular editor in mind?
Instead of ARK, how about using the command line to decompress the package? Save's you the step of having to decompress the tarball with a second program before opening a terminal to build & install.
Instead of ARK, how about using the command line to decompress the package? Save's you the step of having to decompress the tarball with a second program before opening a terminal to build & install.
Code:
tar xvzf package-name.tar.gz
Drop the "z", it is not needed. In fact, you might want to drop the "v" as well unless you like to see the list of files as they are extracted.
Better yet, use bsdtar, then you can use the same extraction command for extracting tar, ar (deb), rpm, cpio, zip, rar, iso and more
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