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mreff555
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:39 pm    Post subject: vi just doesn't do it for me. need something else Reply with quote

Can anyone recommend a console text editor with color coding for coding. I know vi well enough to know I don't like it. In my opinion the bells and whistles which I don't use don't offset the lack of ease of use.

I honestly like nano a lot. I wish I could add colors to it, but I'm not sure if you can. I'd be up for suggestions.

I have a few GUI apps that I like such as sublimetext, but it's not free and I don't always code in a window manager. Any advice
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you like nano but want syntax highlighting, why not turn it on?
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/use-syntax-highlighting-in-nano-editor.html
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm sorry to hear that you don't like Vi. Have you tried Vi/M? (aka vim). Vim is Vi iMproved, which has a lot of neat options, including syntax highlighting, auto completion features, line numbering, screen splitting and many, many others. It may need a bit of love setting it up, but it worth the effort, I promise.

By the other hand, if you are fine with losing the undo history, command repetition, sub processes and all that stuff, you may investigate the Gentoo wiki about nano and the magnificent ArchLinux Wiki about Nano.. There you'll find syntax highlighting and some other tricks.

Good luck!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Emacs seems like the obvious choice :wink:
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some of my early stuff was using wordstar for doing pascal on cp/m. I ended up using joe as it was close to what I was used to from then. Never really liked nano. Joe does syntax highlighting.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tractor Girl wrote:
Emacs seems like the obvious choice :wink:

I"ll second that. It is a persional choice, but I love emacs, after using it for a decade and a half, I keep finding new cool things about it.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mackal wrote:
If you like nano but want syntax highlighting, why not turn it on?
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/use-syntax-highlighting-in-nano-editor.html



Nice, I didn't even realize that was an option.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tractor Girl wrote:
Emacs seems like the obvious choice :wink:
I'll second that as well. Once you learn emacs, you'll... Wait... What am I thinking? I've been learning emacs now for over 12 years now and I'm not done yet. :wink:

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i use gedit to edit console text. then i use sftp (&gvfs) and mount file systems remote to local machine via nautilus / dolphin / thunar then copy paste files over network easily. or use gedit to change remote files. totally not cli, but cli is completely avoidable. gedits pro on the highlighting.... fail on cli end.... i just deal with the cli end much differently.

i figure its blasphemous to not have a browser accessable for accessing answers to questions while programming.

i agree vi is not friendly. nano / pico are easy. why isnt pico on the system and what's the difference from nano?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mcedit from app-misc/mc has syntax highlighting as well.
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