Andre' Blanchard wrote: > At 12:39 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote: > > >>The easiest editor for most people will probably just be gedit aka "Text >>Editor" in the Accessories menu. >> >>Moses > > > A small easy to use editor that can open up the same and/or multiple files > in multiple windows is something that would be really handy for editing > large files on Linux. I have never figured out how people can edit a large > text file without being able to view and reference two or three other > locations in the same file, they must have a lot better memories then me. > Emacs is what I use. It is a little slow to start up, it has to load all this language-sensitive stuff, but can split the window, view multiple files, etc. quite easily. With the pull-down menus, you don't have to remember a bunch of cryptic commands.
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