Michael Armbrecht wrote:
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>> Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 11:05 schrieb Ken Guest:
>>>Looking to install a text editor that'll be used by absolute beginners.
>>I don't want to, nor have the time,
>>to teach them how to use emacs or vim so I'm really looking for the
>>simplest editor that's out there
>>it doesn't have to have any fancy functionality or anything like that.
>>I'm leaning towards pico - is there anything simpler?
>>> I have discovered jEdit, a text editor written in Java, runs everywhere, has
> all that is needed and there are lots of plugins as well. It is my editor of
> choice where I can't run emacs.
>> Check http://www.jedit.org
I checked this out, and wow it's a nice looking full featured editor.
However it takes 10s to start on my 1.4GHz celery, so you
wouldn't be using it for quick edits. Also I don't like
the default pasty color schemes for syntax highlighting.
I sure does look nice though.
Padraig.
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