Hi, Apologies for my very delayed reply. I havn't checked my inbox in quite a while. I just wanted to thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my question re text editors in such detail. I know I'm responding way late, but better late than never and I just wanted to thank you for sharing your experiences and for listing so many options. I look forward to researching those that you listed. Its great that there are so many to choose from. Now it just comes down to me figuring out which one/s will be my preference. Again just wanted to thank you for your time and effort in writing such a thorough reply, the info you shared is very much appreciated. Sincerely, SL Jan 24, 2021, 03:40 by ra+dtubxdrrefuvknlzmxnknslhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list