good time to go exploring others… e.g. emacs1, neovim, mcedit (from mc (midnightcommander)), geany, kate, nano, or even go crazy and write your own (… no kidding. I did, last year. fin)
1 probably best avoid emacs, unless you want it to take over your computing and your life.
Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that’s awesome!
I don’t use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don’t plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system. I’ve tried emacs and vim briefly and they’re well beyond what I’m ever looking for. geany is an option, but gedit seems to be doing the job. I’ve never heard of kate before this thread, I’ll have to look it up. Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.
Based on the interface and what I’ve needed it for, gedit works, and so does Sublime Text. Honestly, Notepad++ was/is my third-most-used text editor on Windows, behind M$ Edit (I have FreeDOS Edit in DOSBox) and M$ Notepad (replaced with xed, except the .LOG function, which is sorely missed). Npp is the one I use for editing HTML/XML, Excel functions, the odd Excel macro; and subtitle files, transcripts, and scripts (where line numbers matter and I need fixed-length lines). FocusWriter is #4 on both OSes.
Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that’s awesome!
Well, proud of my accomplishment as I am, …
I never said it’s good.
It’s merely usable.
And even that may yet prove debatable. ;)
I don’t use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don’t plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system.
First time I recall anyone responding to my suggestion of mcedit in a way that looks like they know what I’m talking about. :)
gedit seems to be doing the job. I’ve never heard of kate before this thread, I’ll have to look it up.
Kate is to KDE, like gedit is to GNOME. It’s been a while since I used gedit, but Kate recently [(well, a couple years ago]) inspired me to add one of it’s nice features (the minimap) to my emacs.
Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.
M$ Edit
Just remembered, there’s now also M$'s edit (iirc that’s the name “edit”) available for windows, that’s basically notepad for the terminal user interface.
My “fin”'s similar (and simpler ~ because I’ve yet to get back to padding out its [even basic] features), in that it also uses cua keybind model (ctrl+s = save, etc).
good time to go exploring others… e.g. emacs1, neovim, mcedit (from mc (midnightcommander)), geany, kate, nano, or even go crazy and write your own (… no kidding. I did, last year. fin)
1 probably best avoid emacs, unless you want it to take over your computing and your life.
Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that’s awesome!
I don’t use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don’t plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system. I’ve tried emacs and vim briefly and they’re well beyond what I’m ever looking for. geany is an option, but gedit seems to be doing the job. I’ve never heard of kate before this thread, I’ll have to look it up. Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.
Based on the interface and what I’ve needed it for, gedit works, and so does Sublime Text. Honestly, Notepad++ was/is my third-most-used text editor on Windows, behind M$ Edit (I have FreeDOS Edit in DOSBox) and M$ Notepad (replaced with xed, except the .LOG function, which is sorely missed). Npp is the one I use for editing HTML/XML, Excel functions, the odd Excel macro; and subtitle files, transcripts, and scripts (where line numbers matter and I need fixed-length lines). FocusWriter is #4 on both OSes.
Well, proud of my accomplishment as I am, …
I never said it’s good.
It’s merely usable.
And even that may yet prove debatable. ;)
First time I recall anyone responding to my suggestion of mcedit in a way that looks like they know what I’m talking about. :)
Kate is to KDE, like gedit is to GNOME. It’s been a while since I used gedit, but Kate recently [(well, a couple years ago]) inspired me to add one of it’s nice features (the minimap) to my emacs.
Just remembered, there’s now also M$'s edit (iirc that’s the name “edit”) available for windows, that’s basically notepad for the terminal user interface.
My “fin”'s similar (and simpler ~ because I’ve yet to get back to padding out its [even basic] features), in that it also uses cua keybind model (ctrl+s = save, etc).