Kate versus vi flamewar? Never saw this coming. What's "clumsy" about vi?
vi under DSL3.4 works wonderful. For some reason under MEPIS it refuses to allow me to walk all over the screen changing text while in INSERT mode. It would drop out of INSERT mode for no logical reason I could determine if I moved too far back in the file of the point where I invoked INSERT mode. It may have something to do with vi being unable to fetch the TerminalCapabilities (termcap) for my X-Window session. I moved vi from DSL3.4 over to MEPIS and it won't start because of a missing termcap library. Believe me, I'm an old vi user and use it all the time under the Cygwin environment under Windows. I'm quite good at it. But because it didn't work smoothly under MEPIS (probably could be fixed, I know) I looked at the Kate product and found it pretty darn good with its "language-aware" shading of your source code.
Harking back to the 1980s I even tried running Borland's Turbo-C under WINE just to get the editor it had. I loved that editor. Alas, it wouldn't run easily so I gave up and decided it was really time to move into the 21st century!
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Nano ftw!
That's another editor I just became aware of (I lead a sheltered life). I tried it once yesterday and seemed comfortable with it. Might put it on my list of editors for basic changes. I like the name!I really like nano's color highlighting, helps programming Unfortunately the version in DSL has color highlighting disabled, but compiling nano is a breeze.
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I'm an old vi user and use it all the time under the Cygwin environment under Windows.
Vim has a static Windows binary, cygwin is unnecessary to use it. There's probably more problems with mismatched C libraries (and every other library as a result) when it comes to copying binaries between DSL and Mepis since Mepis is much more oriented to bleeding edge. I thought Mepis used Vim -- at least it did when I last used it. That kind of behavior surprises me. Are you using its default rc or your own?
Biting my tongue about nano. Heh. I hated using Pine because of pico, never could figure out why anyone would want pico emulation for an editor.Next Page...
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