Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Editors for UNIX

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Editors for UNIX
# 1  
Old 04-25-2002
Question Editors for UNIX
Where can i find editors for UNIX?
thanks
# 2  
Old 04-25-2002
what kind of editor youŽre looking for?

Normally a texteditor like vi is installed on every system often youŽll find emacs installed as well.

Just try:

vi mytext.txt

BRGDS,

Frank
# 3  
Old 04-25-2002
editor
emacs, nedit are other editors for unix shell.
nedit is available free
http://www.nedit.org/download/current.shtml
regards
# 4  
Old 04-25-2002
Hi this is an old posting from killserv dated in y2k Smilie

If youŽre looking for an editor to highlight syntax - read this Smilie

Quote:

Latest version of vi text editor uses color codes.
The latest version is called vim (some called gvim)
you might want to check out its webpage www.vim.org


Quote:

Features
Syntax Coloring:
Vim shows text in color - according to its "(programming) language".
You can define the "language" ("syntax") of the files yourself.

Vim comes with 200+ syntax files for colorizing text in
common programming languages (Ada, C, C++, Eiffel, Fortran,
Haskell, Java, Lisp, Modula, Pascal, Prolog, Python,
Scheme, Smalltalk, SQL, Verilog, VisualBasic),
math programs (Maple, Matlab, Mathematica, SAS), markup text
(DocBook, HTML, LaTeX, PostScript, SGML-LinuxDoc, TeX, WML, XML),
program output (diff, man), setup files of programs (4DOS, Apache,
autoconfig, BibTeX, CSS, CVS, elm, IDL, LILO, pine, procmail, samba, slrn),
shell scripts and setups (shells: sh, bash, csh, ksh, zsh),
script languages (awk, Perl, sed, yacc)
system files (printcap, .Xdefaults) and
of course for Vim and its helptexts.
-------------------------
courtesy of vim.org
Original-by: Sven Guckes guckes@vim.org
BRGDS,

Frank

P.S.:

Sometimes it makes sence just to search the forum Smilie

SCNR ;-)
# 5  
Old 04-25-2002
I can't make this recommendation strong enough so I'll simply type it in two bold capital letters:

VI
# 6  
Old 04-25-2002
Well as everyone has said what type of editor you want?

Me I go with VI only reason it's on all platforms and you don't need to carry a copy with you. So it's very handy to know VI.
merlin
 
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

5 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

UNIX Basics about shell and editors and default settings

Hi all, I have 3-4 years of experience working on unix environment. I am not a beginner, but unix is not my primary skill set. I am very good at awk programming and doing many of my tasks very well, really very weak on basics. I moved to a new job recently and the settings there are driving me... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ysvsr1
5 Replies

2. UNIX and Linux Applications

opinions on video editors

What is everyones opinions on these video editors? PiTiVi Avidemux Cinelerra Kdenlive Kino Linux Video Editing: Top Five Linux Video Editors (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
0 Replies

3. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

GUI Text Editors in WinXP -- what's their problem?

jEdit, Total Edit, EDXOR, all have one thing in common -- whatever they save in what they call "Unix" encoding and line endings inevitably shows up in a CLI text editor like pico or vim having garbage characters somewhere close to the beginning or, though this is more rare, somewhere in the body of... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: SilversleevesX
0 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Mail utilities and editors.

I was wondering what other mail utilities besides 'mutt, unix mail, PINE and elm' are available for unix. Also, what other editors are around besides 'VI, pico, vim and emacs'... I've been searching the net looking for some answers, but nothing much has come up.. thanx! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Shonnie
1 Replies

5. Programming

editors?

Just started out with C and are looking for a good editor in *nix that marks the code with colors. This is maybe a newbie thing to have the C code in colors but i like it and you can almost always se when you are typing wrong. :) Ive heard that emacs should have that option but i havent... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: hexdoctor
3 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question