OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

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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RE[3]: Cons?

by WorknMan on Wed 27th Aug 2008 17:39 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Cons?"

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I only used it or Bluefish for short periods, so feel free to disagree with this, but I choose Quanta+ as the nearest rival to DW.

AFAIK, Quanta+ is not a WYSIWYG editor. If that is the case, then you're really comparing apples to oranges.

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