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mreff555 Apprentice
Joined: 10 Mar 2011 Posts: 231 Location: Philadelphia
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:39 pm Post subject: vi just doesn't do it for me. need something else |
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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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mackal Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Aug 2011 Posts: 92
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PeGa! Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 104 Location: Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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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.
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Tractor Girl Apprentice
Joined: 16 May 2013 Posts: 159
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Emacs seems like the obvious choice |
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Aiken Apprentice
Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 239 Location: Toowoomba/Australia
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Beware the grue. |
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TheLexx Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 137 Location: Austin Tx
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:09 am Post subject: |
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Tractor Girl wrote: | Emacs seems like the obvious choice |
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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mreff555 Apprentice
Joined: 10 Mar 2011 Posts: 231 Location: Philadelphia
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Nice, I didn't even realize that was an option. |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10589 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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Tractor Girl wrote: | Emacs seems like the obvious choice | 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.
- John _________________ I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters. |
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666threesixes666 Veteran
Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 1248 Location: 42.68n 85.41w
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:10 am Post subject: |
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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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Polynomial-C Retired Dev
Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 1432 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:52 am Post subject: |
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mcedit from app-misc/mc has syntax highlighting as well. _________________ The manual said "Requires Windows10 or better" so I installed GNU/Linux...
my portage overlay
Need a stage1 tarball? (Unofficial builds) |
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