when becoming a cross-platform novice, there was one thing that really disturbed me about linux that was so much better on windows:
the standard commandline editor(s) for editing text files.
if you are using gnome or KDE, the standard editors under linux (gedit/kedit) are better that the normal notepad under windows. but when it comes to commandline, the common windows-user is lost.
if you are a non-hardcore linux user you know what i mean:
vi(m) and emacs need to be LEARNED before they can be used.
what a normal windows to linux switcher wants is an editor like the good old MS-DOS Editor "edit".
what i want is an editor that i can simply USE without needing to learn it.
there are thousands of different flavors of software out there for linux so i thought it shouldnt be difficult to find an editor that is as intuitie as MS edit.
well, it was.
but finally after about two hours i found one thats quite comfortable that satisdfies my needs. with you might feel at home with it too:
the editor called jed.
just install jed like you would any other package in debian(ubuntu) with sudo apt-get jed. try it out and see for yourself if you need to use commandline editors one time or another but are fed up with emacs and vi.
happy coding
the standard commandline editor(s) for editing text files.
if you are using gnome or KDE, the standard editors under linux (gedit/kedit) are better that the normal notepad under windows. but when it comes to commandline, the common windows-user is lost.
if you are a non-hardcore linux user you know what i mean:
vi(m) and emacs need to be LEARNED before they can be used.
what a normal windows to linux switcher wants is an editor like the good old MS-DOS Editor "edit".
what i want is an editor that i can simply USE without needing to learn it.
there are thousands of different flavors of software out there for linux so i thought it shouldnt be difficult to find an editor that is as intuitie as MS edit.
well, it was.
but finally after about two hours i found one thats quite comfortable that satisdfies my needs. with you might feel at home with it too:
the editor called jed.
just install jed like you would any other package in debian(ubuntu) with sudo apt-get jed. try it out and see for yourself if you need to use commandline editors one time or another but are fed up with emacs and vi.
happy coding
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