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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2005-07-08
Yeah - joe and/or ee were what I used to setup for people who needed to do editing from the cli but didn't want to learn vi(m). That was quite a while ago, though - probably 6+ years. I haven't given either of them much of a thought in ages, and it seems that nano is the current darling of the cli-unclued. Or at least it's what all of the *bunutu tutorials reference when they aren't referencing gedit. Maybe a better way to put that is it's the easy-though-feature-lacking ubiquitous cmd line editor, these days.