[SunHELP] Re: X editors

Will Mc Donald wmcdonald at ntlworld.com
Fri Mar 1 17:25:11 CST 2002


From: "Will Yardley" <william+sun at hq.newdream.net>

> > > Is there something wrong with vi?
>
> > not from my standpoint but this a coporate environment and these guys
> > are workstation oriented running exceed sessions.
>
> what about vim / gvim?
> gvim should work well, and if they're not vi-types, you can set it to
> start in "insert only" mode, which will make it pretty much like a
> normal text editor.


Yep, something like gvim or xemacs. A couple of our developers really like
nedit too, from what little I've seen of it it's a very powerful editor with a
very Windows-ey look and feel.

http://www.nedit.org/

Will.



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