Text editors
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Text editors
started by: Dakrone
Posted by Dakrone on Oct. 06 2003,04:28
...How about Pico or Nano? I like those and the nano tiny build is VERY small, easy to add on
Posted by wiak on Oct. 06 2003,04:47
yes good idea pico rocks 
and it can be use in console =)
Posted by xychix on Oct. 06 2003,05:36
I think VIM should do!
Posted by Dakrone on Oct. 06 2003,06:22
...How about all 3? I use all 3, vim isn't that big either.
EDIT: or is it...
Posted by Ray on Oct. 06 2003,16:10
Vim is actually pretty large when you look at its dependency requirements. DSL already has three editors + a word processor, I think that's enough.nVi is a lot smaller than Vim, it is not as feature rich, but not bad.
Zile is a compact EMACS clone.
Nedit is a nice gui editor.
Nano would be redundant.
Posted by Dakrone on Oct. 06 2003,18:12
...Nah, I don't think so, I prefer to use it more than vi, and it's not like it takes up too much space (973k for the big build, the small is really small)
Posted by Ray on Oct. 06 2003,19:11
How small can vim get? The smallest build I can find is over 400k.
Posted by vocabulaic on Oct. 06 2003,22:32
what's wrong with the plain old flwriter and vi that are already included? Is there some file format or other extension that is feasible to attempt to fit into a 50MB distribution?
Posted by Dakrone on Oct. 06 2003,22:44
...I just like nano, that's all
Posted by vocabulaic on Oct. 06 2003,22:54
I just wasn't sure if there was some type of extension that others are using that I'm not aware of (I still remember being overwhelmed by the variables and options available in OpenOffice after having use WordPerfect @ the school for so long).... Then at school I'll go, "Man, I sure wish that right now I could use (insert function here) ----" and everyone else just goes to crickets.
Posted by davide on Oct. 09 2003,14:21
a better word processor wouldn't be a bad idea.I mean as for browsing, links hacked or dillo are very very good. they've got it all (almost).
but FL Writer hum....it's not at the same level.
Posted by Dakrone on Oct. 09 2003,15:17
...Heh, right now I am just loving antiword, that program is awesome
Posted by davide on Oct. 10 2003,09:24
but antiword just *reads* MS word documents, doesn't it?I was thinks about an old version of abiword or a kind of. but I suppose that is too big to fit.
Posted by minimalcomputing on Oct. 11 2003,19:46
I still believe the choice of software and hardware should be up to the user. Thus, if you like vi, fine; Nano, fine too. That is why I am interested in installing "real" Debian and customizing it to my needs.