better linux text editor

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 6:16 pm

I'm looking for a better text editor then vim. I hate how vim is very tedious and if you accidentally hit the wrong key at the wrong time it screws everything up, and exiting/saving is a pain in the butt.

Basically I'm looking for something like edit.com in msdos. But would that type of interface even work through ssh?

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closet geek · Post by **closet geek** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:31 pm

Vim is the king. Learn it and you'll love it.

If not, then use the queen (open to debate this one!) emacs.

cg

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:42 pm

I heard that the Crossover Office works great

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:46 pm

I just need a text editor, not an entire office suite.

Vim is just too tedious.

For example, to exit I need to press esc, : and Q, but if I screw up like press something else by accident, it will just go in all sorts of menues and I end up getting stuck where keys don't do anything and I have to close the terminal, loosing my progress. I just want a edit.com style editor, much easier to use.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:49 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I just need a text editor, not an entire office suite.

Bah!

Fine, try this, it's not too bad (still a suite)
http://www.openoffice.org/

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megaspaz · Post by **megaspaz** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:05 am

you could try out pico or mcedit.

pico comes with pine so all you have to do is run pine once.
mcedit looks a lot like msdos's edit program. it uses the function keys to access the program's menu, though.

there was another console text editor from a linuxquestions.org post that was close to msdos's edit program. i can't remember the name of the program though... i do remember the post was in their programming forums.

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Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:40 pm

mcedit rocks. No cryptic commands, or strange keyboard combinations.

It resembles the old "Norton Commander" thus the name "Midnight Commander"

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:54 pm

Thanks I'll give those a try.

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