Favorite RaspOS editor

[Dale]

I've been using the basic editor or the Geany Programmer's editor which
comes with the RaspOS installation.

Are there other editors, with enough benefits to install them, that
others who have been here for a long time  have favored as a useful one
to use, or stick with the basics?

Thx.  Dale

[Vince Skahan]

Dale get yourself some basic linux training. There are many free courses out there including what used to be a good one on edx.org

Editors are like standards. Everybody has one they like.

I use vim as a many decade unix user.

[DR]

Thanks.

I am getting 'a little' more familiar with Linus and see why people like
it a lot for the solid nature of it and such.

I'll check out the recommendation for courses.

I appreciate the guidance.  And of course the help with WeeWx

[Nate Bargmann]

As I noted in another message, I use Vim for its "vimdiff" mode. I'm
sure there are other editors that can do a similar, perhaps Kate (but it
will likely require a slug of KDE libraries) which is a fine GUI editor
much like Geany (I used Geany for years). There is also Emacs for
another "old skool" Unix editor.

I chose Vim as generally it has very good syntax highlighting. It runs
the same in a terminal on the desktop or via SSH to a remote machine.
It has an enormous learning curve which pays off later on, particularly
if you're a touch typist (I'm not much of one).

For years I used the editor that comes with the Midnight Commander file
manager--mcedit. It is a bit easier to use and while mc has a "diff"
mode, mcedit doesn't have a diff mode for editing (perhaps it does and I
missed figuring out how to use it).

If you always edit from the console, then you have a wide choice. If
you're going to be editing via an SSH login, then a good terminal editor
is the tool of choice.

- Nate

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[DR]

Thanks for the suggestions.


I get by with what little I do with those two, but decades ago
discovered a purchased one for Windows which, as Vince says, just seemed
to fit better.


No sense in driving a  Yugo when a nice sports car is available in the
next parking spot.

Dale