Regarding text editors, well quite frankly, the selection is kind of staggering. In the terminal, the big two are vi and emacs and their derivatives, but there's also ed, nano(what I use), and micro that I can name off top of my head. I like Nano because it's small, and I find it more straight forward to use than the bit I've messed around with vi or emacs, though coming from Windows, you might prefer micro, which is inspired by nano but might have a more familiar set of keybindings(I'm using nano instead of micro largely because I had already grown acustomed to nano's quirks by the time micro came along... in nano, some of the keybindings that might trip up someone coming from Windows include crtl+x for closing the open file, ctrl+o to save, ctrl+k to cut(and cutting the whole line at that), ctrl+u to paste(pasting all lines that were cut without a keystroke other than ctrl+K), ctrl+w to search forward, ctrl+Q to search backwards, just to name a few). On the graphical side, I think every desktop environment has its own text editor and then some. Gnome has gedit, KDE has Kate, LXDE has Leafpad, there's one in there called nedit, I think there's an editor written in Java called jedit, and I think I've used pretty much all of them at one point or another and found them more or less interchangeable... Granted, I haven't tried a graphical editor since going blind... and Kate probably isn't too accessible since, as a KDE app, it's built with the QT ttoolkit, which isn't as well supported by Orca as GTK. Not sure I've ever used Notepad++(I was still using a word processor for most of my document creation when I was using Windows regularly), but I suspect there's a lot of commonalities between it and the graphical editors I mentioned above. And Visual Studio is more of an integrated development environment than a stand alone editor... Though I generally prefer to code in a stand-alone editor and invoke a compiler from the command line when I program, though Eclipse is one IDE that runs under Linux... Eclipse is optimized for Java development, though I believe it can be used for C/C++ and perhaps other related languages. And for what it's worth, I'm pretty sure all of the editors I've mentioned offer syntax highlighting. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list