Text Editors Megathread (Page 3 of 3)

gedit does have some nice plugins, but since moving to #!, been happy with geany.   Being that one of the reasons of moving to a distro such as #! was to improve my overall linux / CLI skills, I try to stay w/in the terminal using either nano or vi when editing and viewing files. 

For coding I have been using Sublime-text for the past year or so.  You can also enable vi mode editing which is a nice feature.  Sublime-text is a text-mate like editor.  Give it a try if your looking for something new.  It also works with windows, so if you go back and forth or have a dual boot set up, that is definitely a plus to be able to use the same editor, no matter what.

Ever since discovering and falling in love with the addon Vimperator, I thought I should probably check out Vim and start learning it. And just like Vimperator I'm really enjoying it. I didn't know about the vimtutor that el_koraco mentioned though, so that was actually pretty helpful. Vim isn't nearly as complicated as it seems at first glance and it is actually extremely quick once you learn it(just like the addon).

Before Vim though, Leafpad was my preferred Gui text editor and Nano was my preferred Cli editor.

Actually I've given Pentadactyl a try a couple times but switched back to Vimperator since Pentadactyl was kind of slow. Which I'm guessing is due to the browser I'm using, Swiftfox 3.6, and because it's an older version I have to use an older version Pentadactyl.

So if I ever decide to install Iceweasel and update it to a new version(which I'll probably have to do soon since more and more add ons aren't working with 3.6, but I tried updating Iceweasel once before but was unsuccessful, I'm on Stable though) then I'll give the new versions of Pentadactyl a shot and see how they are. But for now I'm stuck with Vimperator.

Last edited by h8uthemost (2012-01-04 09:13:06)

Gedit, can be turned into a very nice IDE with all the plugins.