Suggestion for Linux text editor.

[Grench]

The touchscreen is probably quite useless for web browsing...

Agreed.

However, the left game pad (arrow keys) and the right game cluster (pgup, pgdn, home, end) combined together offered really nice web browsing on the Pandora and should on the Pyra as well.

On the topic of using the game pad buttons for non-gaming tasks, I'm actually looking forward to having Insert within thumbs reach for copy/paste. Highlight text by selecting a point at the start or end of what you're interested in then hold shift and hit end or home or the left pad (arrow keys), then ctrl+insert to copy, shift+ins to paste. With the Insert button readily available and shoulders for ctrl and shift, it should be a very easy to reach and smooth sequence. I'm so glad we kept that 6 button key cluster intact (Insert, Home, PgUp, Delete, End, PgDn). Six button gaming cluster - just one of many great things that came out of the much maligned keyboard discussions.

 

[Caine]

I am generally a vim user, but I am considering EMACS because ESCAPE-META-ALT-CONTROL-SHIFT actually seems a reasonable combination on the Pyra as it has shoulder buttons/keys.

For me, having a portable Emacs is the primary use-case of the Pyra. The rest is bonus.

 

[canseco]

For me, it's Nano for the terminal, Mousepad on OpenPandora and Kate on my PC with Linux.

I use Focuswriter too when i don't want to get distracted or take notes.

 

[liveunderwater]

Huh, I looked at this thread thinking something like "letter to the Editor," or suggestions to mods maybe... Anywho, I like vim and nano for my editors for what its worth

 

[TrashyMG]

Okay edited the title to be a little more clear.

 

[PCXT]

For thumb-typing keyboard?
There is FTE, it's menu-based. The only hack then would be to have single key to open menus, then arrows may be used (like in HP 200LX).

 

[veloknight]

For me, having a portable Emacs is the primary use-case of the Pyra. The rest is bonus.

Anyone have reviews of using Emacs on the Pandora / Pyra prototypes? I'm an emacs man through-and-through, but Haraldur's suggestion has me more excited about Emacs than I've been for a loooong time.

 

[b_o_b]

For me, having a portable Emacs is the primary use-case of the Pyra. The rest is bonus.

Just curious - the Emacs version in the repo is pretty old. Are you using Slackware to get a more recent version?

 

[ptitSeb]

Just curious - the Emacs version in the repo is pretty old. Are you using Slackware to get a more recent version?

He speak about Pyra, not Pandora...
(but latest beta of codeblocks PND does contains a recent built of EMACS and VIM).

 

[b_o_b]

He speak about Pyra, not Pandora...
(but latest beta of codeblocks PND does contains a recent built of EMACS and VIM).

Thanks, didn't register Pyra in the post from Caine... Good to know a recent version is included in codeblocks. Still on my to-do list to do some compiling with it as well, so a good reason to update it one of my Pandora's and give it a try.

 

[MaxLanar]

(sorry in advance for my english)

I feared the pandora's keyboard to not be appropriate for emacs whereas it's a delight to use on a daily basis (shoulder button make using emacs on a mobile device a very nice experience).

As caine, emacs on a pandora / pyra / any computer is the my first use-case, the rest is bonus.

 

[kuru]

In terminal I like JOE

 

[___]

I use nano when I am working in a shell... but I am not a programmer. When I am working in a graphical environment, I have learned to love geany.

Geany is really cool for my purposes. It provides syntax highlighting, has some great search functionality and I like that it keeps several files open as tabs if you don't close them yourself, so next time you load up geany, it's all still there. It even keeps unsaved buffers backed up, so you can decide later on if you want to save them to a file or discard them. Very useful for forgetful idiots like me...

 

[jorlinn]

I use nano when I am working in a shell... but I am not a programmer. When I am working in a graphical environment, I have learned to love geany.

Geany is really cool for my purposes. It provides syntax highlighting, has some great search functionality and I like that it keeps several files open as tabs if you don't close them yourself, so next time you load up geany, it's all still there. It even keeps unsaved buffers backed up, so you can decide later on if you want to save them to a file or discard them. Very useful for forgetful idiots like me...

Geany is quite cool indeed. I use it for my excusrsions into Python-land.

 

[linx]

Geany for me too, vim for cli. If you master all those movement shortcuts in normal mode you will be ultra fast editing on a pyra. Too bad I'm not...

 

[levi]

The thing that made me learn vim movement controls combined with operators like delete and change was learning I could use dot ('.') to repeat that last command in a different location which I found a very speedy way to do repetitive stuff on code. Then I learned how to use ranges, so to move a function I do a 'ma' at the head of it to mark the head, then move to the line below the bottom and do ':'a,.d' to cut from mark a to the current line, then move elsewhere and do a paste. I guess writing it out I can see how unintelligible it can be to a newbie, but I think of it like range from (colon), mark a (quote-a), to (comma), current line (dot), delete ('d').

 

[Silent-Hunter]

I tend to use vi or nano depending on my mood. Or just mousepad.

 

[benoitb]

I usually use VIM on Linux and Notepad++ on Windows.
I'm not too skilled with VIM however, only know some useful shortcuts.

 

[levi]

I think vim is one of those things where the more you learn about it, the more you realise how much of it you don't actually know. I don't really understand vim plugins, virtual mode, or half of what's possible with :set for example.