On Wednesday 29 December 2010 4:34:39 am Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> On Wednesday 29. December 2010 13.18.40 Alban Hertroys wrote:
> > Learning Vim is probably time well-spent, but until you do it's
>
> probably not that good a tool for fixing your problem.
>
> > Although Vim is indeed a very powerful editor, it's not particularly
>
> easy to use. Unlike your usual editors like Notepad and friends, it's a
> command-based editor, meaning you have to execute a command before you
> can input or change data. It's an entirely different paradigm than what
> you're probably used to (I may assume wrongly here).
>
> Back when I used Windows, my favorite editor was EditPlus
> (http://www.editplus.com/). It isn't free, but well worth the 35 bucks.
>
> As a rather casual coder, I'm very satisfied with the simple editor
> Kwrite in KDE. It's a sheer delight compared to Notepad.
>
> regards, Leif
Another choice is Jedit(http://jedit.org/). It is written in Java so you will
need that installed. It has a graphical interface so the learning curve is
short.
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