Linked by Adam S on Tue 26th Aug 2008 13:10 UTC, submitted by linuxlinks
Periodically, there's a review of text editors for a particular platform. Linuxlinks' latest post is pretty thorough though, covering 21 different Linux/Unix text editors. "In many users' eyes, a text editor should be lean and mean, fast to start up and shut down, without fancy splash screens or a graphical user interface. The choice of editor has long stirred up strong emotions. [...] To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 21 high quality Linux text editors. There's a mix of graphical and console based applications included.
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2005-11-16
Hehe - if you try each editor out for a day, what are you meant to do after three weeks? Start from the start of the list again, or write your own editor? :-)