On 06/04/17 13:12, Daniel James wrote:
> 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.
>
A fair and balanced summary that I totally agree with.



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