On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Daniel W. Burke wrote: > I know a lot of people on the list use Linux, and Jed is an *excellent* > editor for programming in C... it's all nice and color coded when it > comes to reserved words, {}[]() characters, autoindents for you, and > shows you were open brackets are when you type a close bracked, even > warns you if there's a possible mismatch. (It even makes timed backups > of the file you're working on incase of whatever).. My personal fave is 'joe' which I downloaded from the Linux archive and got to compile on BSDI with no changes what-so-ever. It is powerful, allowing multiple file windows, cut-and-paste (and other block commands), search/replace, goto line, and the ability to check for the close/open thing, too (although it doesn't do it automatically like Jed or Jove, which I find actually annoying). Joe is also much easier to use than Emacs, more powerful than Pico, and can even emulate Pico (to some extent). The problems I have with Jed is it's rather sluggish, it's not extremely functional, the command set is difficult, and it automatically does the matching of {}/[]/() even when you don't want it to (eg., when you know that you have your code right, then it takes a few seconds to skip backwards then forwards). 99% of the time I know my {}/[]/()'s are right simply because of indents, so I don't want it skipping back and forth (it gets extremely distracting). I suppose it's up to personal preferences, though. -daniel +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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