I am looking at the vile site.  No binaries for Linux, just DOS M$ and
OS/2.  So I guess it is a "build your own" with the source code?

Alan

At 01:06 PM 8/24/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On Aug 24, 11:24am, Joel Dudley wrote:
>
>> Like I had previously stated to the PLUG, I am teaching myself
>> programming.  Currently I am using my favorite editor, Pico, to
>> create my source code.  Now Pico works great, but I was wondering if
>> any of the code gnomes out there knew of any text editors that
>> facilitated coding (I am doing java right now) better.  I am not
>> interested in any IDE's at the moment because I want my learning
>> experience to be very raw, if that makes any sense.  Thank you for
>> taking the time to read my message. 
>
>Several suggestions...
>
>vile or xvile:  See http://www.vile.cx.
>
>It'll do on-the-fly syntax coloring for quite a few programming
>languages.  Also, it can be built to use Perl as an extension
>language.  (Implemented by yours truly.)  It uses vi keybindings
>so you'll train your fingers to use the standard editor of most
>Unix systems.
>
>nedit: See http://nedit.org/
>
>Also does on-the-fly syntax coloring.  It does come with a set of
>keybindings (and I think you can even change some of them), but it's
>definitely intended for folks who like to use the mouse to do most
>of the cursor positioning.
>
>XEmacs: See http://xemacs.org/
>
>emacs does everything.  XEmacs is a lot like the emacs from the GNU
>project (in fact it came about as the result of a fork that never
>got merged back).  I don't use emacs, but XEmacs looks a lot nicer
>to me...
>
>Kevin
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