[techtalk] Best programmer's editor for Linux

Eva Fenrich eva at faveve.uni-stuttgart.de
Wed Apr 11 16:57:08 EST 2001


Hi!
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:29:54AM -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote:
> Another question: What, in your opinon, is the best open-source programmer's 
> editor for linux? I know that many will answer emacs, and that's certainly a 
> good possibility - but I'm looking for the following:
> 
> color coding, particularly for perl, java and html/xml (and even SQL, if 
> possible) 
> paren checking, tag checking
> easy access to line numbers and line number jumping
vim
gvim
(maybe hard to learn but easy to use ;-)
> I might be asking for too much in one editor - I could use an html/xml editor 
> separate from a programming editor.
... why seperate?
vim is good for programming, html, tex... 
Regards, Eva
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Eva Fenrich					
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