Editor Wars: A New Hope ...

[Michael Hipp]

Collins Richey wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:58:44 -0600, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:

>>   http://fte.sourceforge.net/
>>
> 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.

apt-get install fte

Every editor looks rather pale in a console.

What keystrokes do you find cryptic? Just curious. I've spent all of 
maybe 3 minutes with it so far, but it works - as best I can tell - like 
most every other editor on the planet.

I'll know more perhaps by the end of the day whether it is a keeper or not.

Michael