Editor / IDE - Was: out of space on /root

[Joel Rees]

The best text editor I have ever used is called BBEdit. Unfortunately,
it's MacOS-only, and closed source. But it is free-as-in-beer, with
limited performance.

The second best was originally for the Mac, then branched out into
MSWindows and Linux. Not sure how it is doing lately. It's also
closed, and not free at all. It was called Metrowerks Codewarrior IDE
editor. The IDE was pretty productive, too. Hmm. Now it's owned by NXP
and limited to embedded, and it looks like they are moving the thing
to Eclipse. Sad day, but the natural evolution of closed source.

GEdit is the editor I use most often. When GEdit is not available, I
use vi(m) primarily because I don't have to remember between ctrl-X
and ctrl-Q. And the modality is useful. And the on-disk editting
really helps when you want to look into a really large file.

When I want margins, I know I'm already into WYSIWYG, which means a
word processor.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:34:46 +0200, Charles IRONS wrote:
>>"best text editor"
>
> Some of the discussed "editors" are already "dwarf IDEs" [1] ;).
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
> [1]
> In the style of "dwarf planet".
> If an editor is considered a moon, an IDE could be a planet.
> So something more than an editor, but less than a bloated IDE, might be
> a dwarf IDE. Analogies aren't perfect.



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