In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
> For linux with a gui, frankly it takes a lot to beat Geany for
> programming work.

Geany is an editor with pretensions to being an IDE, but it's not
actually an IDE, and won't cut the mustard if what you want is actually
an IDE. As an editor it's pretty good ... but so is the Gnome text
editor, gedit (or "pluma" as Mate calls it on this system).

> Without a GUI I'd probably use JOE if I had a lot to do, or simply
> learn vi for the sake of sheer ubiquity for small editing jobs

The great advantage of vi is that it's fairly lightweight, and that it
(or one of its clones) can more-or-less be guaranteed to be supported on
almost any system, so for those little config-file edits you may find
yourself having to do outside your favourite GUI it's invaluable. I
wouldn't attempt to do anything sophisticated with it (even though one
can) but it's my tool of choice at a command prompt.

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Cheers,
 Daniel

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