Arch Linux

gbrunoro

Member

From: Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Registered: 2007-04-04

Posts: 55

Re: which text editor?

I would stick with vim and some ruby completion, but Eclipse should have some Ruby plugins like RDT that look interesting

aquila_deus

Member

From: Taipei

Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 348

Website

Re: which text editor?

Not wanting to start a flame war here, but does anyone have a recommendation for a text editor similar to TextMate on OS X?  I'll be doing primarily Ruby on Rails programming..

Komodo Edit?

It offers basic IDE functions such as project, autocomplete/call-tip, code snippets, and works well with mix of html/js. No setup needed (unlike eclipse, jedit, vim, ...). The biggest problem is lack of code formatting.

Eliteforce

Member

Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: which text editor?

i prefer nano/vi as console editor and scite on the desktop

Oin

Member

Registered: 2005-09-02

Posts: 63

Re: which text editor?

There is a very nice-looking rails minor mode for emacs, that I've been looking into. It simulates lots of Textmate's features on emacs.
Sadly, I'm too much of an emacs newbie to get it to work. help?
rails on emacs and a screencast

Last edited by Oin (2007-06-26 09:49:23)

---

In Linux there are no secrets!

3nd3r

Member

From: /dev/null

Registered: 2002-12-08

Posts: 301

Website

Re: which text editor?

my editor of choice is nano. I would use vi but I am really lazy and never got the hang of it. I just think nano/pico's ctrl functions are easier to use

---

Proud Arch i686 & x86_64 User
Share your knowledge!
Arch Linux Forum Etiquette

N30N

Member

Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 273

Re: which text editor?

Keep in mind that what ever you choose, a getting very familiar with a text based editor is best. The gui is not always going to be there for you. Especially if you ever become a systems admin or even a programmer where ssh'ing is your primary interface to other machines.

Unless you use KDE/Kate, the FISH KIO slave is just so useful!

does anyone have a recommendation for a text editor similar to TextMate on OS X?

The e-text editor (aka TextMate for windows) is going to be released for linux once it reaches v1.0 (but is proprietary, so I wont be using it ).

I believe SciTE can be made quite similar to TextMate. I haven't given it much of a try myself, like T-Dawgas I require my editor(s) to work over shh (so just Kate and Vim for me).