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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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2006-10-08
I wonder why Joe isn't in this list?
Joe's Own Editor (joe) is the first editor I used when I started programming on x86, starting with Skaclware, and using FreeBSD today. Joe has developed many good features over the time and is still one of my favourite editors. The command "save and exit", ^KX, has even developed into a synonym for "good bye" or "see ya" at the end of a mail or IRC / IM conversation here. :-) While providing high quality and functionality (^KE / ^KR, ^TD and the ^KB/KK/KM/KC/KY set of commands, especially the ability to resize the edit buffer), joe is still to be considered as a small program, it doesn't consume much ressources.
Then I did use robotron computers in the GDR, one famous program was TP (Text Processor), which was a re-implementation of Wordstar. So the most commands of joe made me wonder where I knew them from.
And I thought I'd be the only person using this editor... =^_^=
Member since: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.
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2005-06-29
I wonder why Joe isn't in this list? It's installed by default in Slackware, which is where I know it from. It's basic, sure, but it's not much different from nano. I used to use it so much that I'd find myself hitting ^KX (save and close) in other editors simply out of habit.