Re: [Sheflug] Favourite editor

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 14 Apr 2005 10:58, Chris Johnson wrote:
> I'm running fedoracore 3 having moved to this from Suse after suse with
> 2.6 kernal wouldn't install on this particular box.  On Suse I had KATE
> as an OK editor but I'm looking for something a bit more involved and
> I'm after your suggestions.
>
> I'm developing php based web pages so syntax highlighting would be good
> but I'm open to other features which others have founds useful.  I'd
> prefer x based as opposed to text based as I'm still getting to grips
> with vi and I'm really slow!  Are there any editors that will highlight
> brackets/parenthesis etc so you can immediately see where the
> corresponding opening/closing character is (similar to the highlighting
> in M$ excel when editing formulae)??
>
> Any suggestions welcome.


 emacs. If you use vi turn emacs vi emulation on "viper-mode".

 Dave.


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