Blog 5 --Chapter 4 -- Visual Editors

Blog 5 -- Week 5 Assignment:

Research the Internet to find other text editors for Unix and Linux.

Write a little about the pro's and con's of each. Are they GUI or command line?

There are several options for visual text editors for Linux and UNIX. The oldest one is VI which is about 30 years old. The updated version is called VIM. Pico and Emacs are also very popular. From my reading on the Internet, VI is the most popular. Emacs seems to be a little more difficult to use, however it has more features than VI. Some other text editors are Joe, Nano, Cool Edit, and Nvu. The rest of the text editors appeared to be WYSIWYG editors, some are for use with X windows, some are for UNIX, and some are java based. Some of the GUI text editors are Mined2000, Netscape Composer, Kompozer, and Mnaya. They all seem to be very similar. The main difference I can see is how many key strokes it takes to do something. I believe that it makes sense to learn the VI commands since that program is on virtually every UNIX and Linux machine in existence. There are a couple of text editors that are different, one is called Xeena that IBM uses, and a text editor called Omega that actually translates from one programing language to another. This sounds very handy! There are so many different text editors it is hard to decide which one to use. Jennifer Kyrnin said that she had tested over 40 HTML editors and posted her favorites at this website. Tested over 40 editors, WHEW!! http://webdesign.about.com/od/linuxunixhtmleditors/tp/best_linux_html_editors.htm

Here is a very cool website I found with a chart of VI commands:

http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html

This is the Emacs website:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

Cream extends VIM to make it easier to use for the average person. If you are used to using VI or VIM but are tired of having to remember all the commands, then Cream is a great alternative

http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html

Java based web editor:

http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

Java based text editor:

http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download

CUTE User-friendly Text Editor (supposedly easy to use)

http://cute.sourceforge.net/

Environment for Preparing HTML Documents ASHE (A Simple XHTML Editor)

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/TALK/head.html

Sea Monkey is more than a text editor, it is an "all-in-one internet application suite" that has a Internet browser, a Mail and Newsgroups client, an HTML editor, and add-ons that enhance its usability.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

This program is a little different, it is for people who can't live without VI, a Vi/vim emulation for Visual Studio, Word, Outlook and SQL Server. I had no idea people could have VI withdrawals.

http://www.viemu.com/

And that is my research on Visual Editors !!