Re: [Sheflug] Favourite editor

[lesleyb <lesley.binks [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
I use emacs.

Some say it's hard to learn/use bute personally I just type in emacs 
<flename> & and get on with it.  I don't know about syntax highlighting 
for php but it does it for Perl C HTML Java and I expect there is 
something out there for php.

It's x based and once you get used to its few oddities it's not that hard.

Emacs will show you the matching opening brace for a closing brace in 
perl etc.


IMHO vi is a great editor and some stuff can be done much faster with a 
few keystrokes in vi than it can be done in emacs or any other text 
editor I know of but I would tend to use vi where I don't have, don't 
want and don't need an x-windows system e.g. on a server.  It is worth 
learning for that reason.

HTH

Lesley


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