Re: [PLUG] Poll! editors (and possibly me burning at the stake)

[Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com>]

On Sunday 25 November 2007, Art Alexion wrote:
> Kate!!
>
>
> (jed for cli, because it is less bizarre than vi or emacs)

For any serious editing (esp. coding) I use Kate.  But for the situations 
where I just want to quickly edit a config in the console, I use "ne".  Its 
key shortcuts are very similar to the familiar GUI editors (like Kate, or 
even notepad.exe) and it does everything a text editor needs to do.  I tried 
setting up jed, but got bogged down configuring it, whereas ne required 
little if any setup.

I used to be an EMACS user, but eventually came to the realisation that I was 
wasting a lot of time getting the thing to work the way I wanted.

As far as other editors are concerned, I know my way around pico/nano (which 
are mostly awful) and can do the most basic tasks in vi(m).  That about 
covers any system I'd expect to find in the wild.

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