Roundup: Text Based Text Editors
For some reason, text editors are something that us Unix geeks get very passionate about. Whether it’s an argument over which editor is better, or just professing our love for our favourite keyboard shortcuts, it’s an emotive issue.
You might think that a plain text editor is a pretty simple affair. After all, all it has to do is allow you to type stuff in and then change it. Right?
Well, it turns out that there are lots of different ways you can approach a text editor and lots of different feature sets that different people prefer.
Why a text-based text editor?
If you’ve used a desktop Linux distribution recently, you’re probably familiar with programs such as gedit, Kate or maybe LeafPad. These are, of course, text editors, but they are graphical programs.
Text editors that run in the command line environment are what we are looking at here. But why would you use any command line based text editor in preference to a graphical one?
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I was hooked on WordStar for CP/M back in the early 80's, so I am probably most comfortable with JOE (Joe's Own Editor) over EMACS, VI, or even Nano.
My addiction wasn't helped by Microsoft's QuickBASIC compiler editors all using a slightly modified WordStar key-binding.