Editor Wars: A New Hope ...

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:58:44 -0600, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> After a lifetime of searching (or maybe it was a couple of hours) I've found
> an editor that might pass even my discerning tastes:
> 
>    http://fte.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It looks and acts very much like a souped-up dos edit. Appears to run equally
> well from console, terminal or X. Multiplatform too. Syntax highlighting looks
> good.
> 
> Now if I could just get every distro on the planet to install it by default
> instead of (oops, alongside) vi :-)
> 

The joys of gentoo; emerge fte only takes a few minutes.

It's a dual mode editor. If run under X, it's a nice looking editor,
but it looks rather pale in a native console, and OMG if you hated the
cryptic key combinations under vi, you're really going to love this
puppy! Also, I could not get it to run in normal user mode. It needs
extra permissions for /dev/vcsa (? spelling). I think I rate it along
with emacs as the most confusing, clumsy to operate.
-- 
 Collins