In spite of the risk of starting an editor war: emacs. emacs -nw starts it in no-window mode. emacs is whatever kind of editor you want it to be :-) (being extensible) cheerio, bjb On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:32:17PM -0500, Bill Strosberg wrote: > Dave Edwards wrote: > >* Bill Strosberg [2006-01-16T08:55-0500]: > > > >>What tools are folks using on the list? What may be worth checking out? > >>Are other people experiencing the same issues I am with Quanta Plus? > >> > > > > > >Hi Bill! Off-hand, I can think of Screem, although I don't use it or > >Q+ either. Maybe I should try them again. Does Q+ offer > >vi-keybindings? > > Thanks for the responses, guys. > > Q+ key bindings are configurable. I've set a few to make life easier. > > Screem seems (on very superficial inspection) to be more of a html/web > editor and less of a general programming editor for my tastes. It > doesn't seem to support ssh/sftp connections, and I do not run ftp on > any of the boxes I administrate. > > I love vim, and it works very well for ad-hoc editing on remote boxes > through shell sessions - but I don't generally do remote x-windows > tunnelled through ssh, therefore the gui version isn't really a winner. > vim's multi-windowing (Ctrl-w, Ctrl-w anyone?) works well, but it > chews screen space on the currently in-use window. You can duct tape > antlers to a dog, but it isn't really a reindeer, contrary to Dr. > Suess's theory. > > I'll take another run at Screem and Bluefish and post my thoughts. I > dug through the Q+ site today and found my issues are shared and have > been simmering for a while - it looks like the development team is > pretty small and overloaded. > > -- > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux ---end quoted text---