Coders who use Linux. Suggestions for dark contrast text/src editor. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 12:37:38 pm
content: Hi.Would really just like green on black simple editor but the standard editors that come with modern distros have annoying white background, black text.In addition to Vim, what do you grey beards suggest using when you just want an editor with nice desktop copy/paste integration without resorting to a large DE suite?Just for C and bash mostly and the odd config file.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 12:39:22 pm
content: gedit has themes you can configure. One default theme/colourscheme has dark grey background with light grey text (including syntax highlighting)

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 12:41:56 pm
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 20, 2015, 12:37:38 pmWhadda ya mean "in addition to vim"? vim in an xterm is the pinnacle of text editors!In all seriousness. I use vim and pluma (the old gedit text editor from Gnome 2 in the current MATE desktop).I find little I can't do with vim in an xterm and some drag/copy middle-click/paste action.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 12:44:23 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on April 20, 2015, 12:39:22 pmForgot about gedit. Just pulled this in from repo. Changed to color scheme to Oblivion. Walla. Thanks.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 12:49:48 pm
content: Quote from: BradC on April 20, 2015, 12:41:56 pmI've got by with vim when a video card went rogue or have had some disaster with X. Not my favorite.Used (and liked) pluma before but had to give Mate the flick. It was changing settings against my wishes (and behind my back). Lightweight desktop I use causes pluma to pull in too much of Mate rubbish when installing it. So I gave up and have been using Leafpad.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 12:58:03 pm
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 20, 2015, 12:37:38 pmIf you install gvim, it also installs a console vim with X11 clipboard support. Select the X11 clipboard as opposed to the usual yank buffer by prefixing the normal yank/delete/paste commands with"+"+yy"+dd"+p"+dabetc

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 01:02:44 pm
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 20, 2015, 12:49:48 pmYeah, I'm seriously thinking about moving across to xfce. I used WindowMaker from about 96 to 2006 when I got sucked into to Gnome 2 in Ubuntu. Once that died I moved across to Mint Debian Edition with the MATE Desktop. Having said that, all my graphical VM's have always used xfce, and it's probably all I need. When I next do an upgrade I'll change, but at the moment it's all too hard.I did a _load_ of software in gedit, and recently have also dabbled with bluefish, but I really do use vim for most of my work. Once I got used to the command structure it very quickly became second nature.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 01:09:07 pm
content: Use nedit and adjust colors.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 01:09:25 pm
content: Fwiw, I use kate which like any decent gui editor can configure it's colours to your desire (but dark on light for me).Have in the past used jedit, gedit, quanta, something else i can't remember, and if i go way back, nedit.I prefer a simple editor to an overgrown ide, just give me a filesystem tree and syntax highlighting then stay out of the way.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 01:12:59 pm
content: Quote from: sleemanj on April 20, 2015, 01:09:25 pmExactly, bro.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 01:53:53 pm
content: I have friends who swear by Sublime Text, which is fairly themeable, I think.I am currently using Linux as my main OS but still have not found any GUI editor which I like as much as BBEdit on OSX which I have used for a very long time, and know really well.I currently use Kate, Geany, JEdit, vim, for different things that I can do all with one tool with BBEdit. Would love to hear more opinions on what editors people prefer.

author: FlevasGR
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 02:06:33 pm
content: http://www.sublimetext.com/3It's almost free and opens instantly

author: smjcuk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 07:21:18 pm
content: I use mg (microemacs). Lovely editor. Plus it comes with the wisdom of Theo DeRaadt:http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/theo.c?rev=1.146&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

author: daybyter
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 10:49:20 pm
content: Emacs also had a nice yellow on dark green theme once.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 10:50:58 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on April 20, 2015, 12:58:03 pmGood idea!

author: suicidaleggroll
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 10:56:55 pm
content: I use vim for quick touch ups, edits, etc., mostly because it's easy to use with keyboard shortcuts and it opens so damn fast (and you don't need X), and I use emacs for bigger development. I haven't yet found a reason to move to something else.

author: MarkL
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 11:33:15 pm
content: I use emacs in a terminal window, currently gnome-terminal. No multi-color highlighting nonsense, no menus, plain black on white.Font style, font size, foreground/background color preference, window size, etc. is all a function of the terminal window.I also sometimes use zile. Zile is a tiny emacs clone that's handy for use on systems with very limited resources (like linux running on an SBC), but it has enough features cloned that it's also usable for everyday stuff.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 11:41:10 pm
content: just hook up an old VT-220 terminal to a serial port and redirect the console input. problem solved.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2015, 11:50:18 pm
content: Quote from: free_electron on April 20, 2015, 11:41:10 pmhahaha.I have tweaked a bash script from across a couple of continents.

author: johnh
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 01:23:43 am
content: Quote from: sleemanj on April 20, 2015, 01:09:25 pm+1

author: MarkL
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 01:29:23 am
content: Quote from: free_electron on April 20, 2015, 11:41:10 pmSome of those old terminals had great keyboards. And with the control key in the right place for us emacs users.

author: AG6QR
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 04:57:38 am
content: In the editor wars, I know of three large camps: The emacs crowd, the vi (vim) crowd, and the "whatever GUI flavor of the week" crowd. Both the emacs and vi crowds like the fact that their editors are extremely powerful and customizable. Both of these camps invest a bit of time learning the tricks of their editors, and committing elaborate sequences to muscle memory so that complex tasks become automatic. Both editors are available on virtually any distribution of almost any OS from the past 25 years or so. Certainly DOS, Windows, any flavor of Linux, Unix, or MacOS don't present a problem.There are some other editors that are virtually as powerful and customizable as vi or emacs, but most of these aren't as easily available on all platforms. Some charge money, others are bundled with an unusual operating system.The "whatever GUI flavor of the week" people tend to switch between editors, and don't use very powerful commands. For example, they mostly don't search and replace using regular expressions.The emacs and vi users may argue the merits of their respective editors, but the arguments are somewhat pointless, as they never end up convincing someone to switch sides. Each side has too much invested it learning the way their editor works.I won't tell you whether I prefer emacs or vi, but I will say that I've been using the same editor for around 25 years, on a boatload of hardware platforms and operating systems. I've used it on a genuine (hardware) VT-220, as well as on xterm windows, and various other terminal windows. I can set the colors to whatever I want. I can program it to do anything I'd want an editor to do, and more. I think it was worth the effort to learn one editor well. And I can stumble around in the other major editor, as well as any GUI editor, too.

author: ivaylo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 07:10:46 am
content: Just change the colors of your terminal. On gnome I like messing with the trasparency too. Then vi/emacs/whatever...

author: briselec
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 09:45:07 am
content: I prefer codeblocks but for quick and dirty editing or for use in a console I like the editor built in to Midnight Commander.

author: miceuz
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 06:23:12 pm
content: Sublimetext.com is what you might find acceptableLoads of cool tricls useful foe code editing.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 06:33:55 pm
content: Quote from: miceuz on April 21, 2015, 06:23:12 pmIt's very expensive for something that's outclassed by gedit or kate :/Are you and FlevasGR affiliated with the product by any chance?

author: andersm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 06:46:48 pm
content: Quote from: Mechanical Menace on April 21, 2015, 06:33:55 pmCan we just fucking stop with the "you say you like something so you must be paid" thing already? Does the GNOME Foundation pay you to shill for their products?

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 06:49:03 pm
content: Quote from: andersm on April 21, 2015, 06:46:48 pmGNOME or KDE don't charge $70 a seat a year for a text editor. And please link to another example of where I'm doing what I should "stop already."EDIT: I also didn't say they were being paid, just asking if they were connected n any way for clarification. If I start pushing Suse anywhere I'll make it clear I used to be affiliated with them

author: JBaughb
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2015, 09:13:10 pm
content: Sublime text is my favorite coding app. Dark backgrounds and color coded text for every language i've ever used I can't go back.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2015, 12:07:50 am
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 20, 2015, 11:50:18 pmif you get a smart terminal like a vt535 those support multiple windows. you can even get a VT-LAN40. That supports as many windows as you want and also supports ReGis and Tektronix graphics.

author: sacherjj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2015, 04:49:37 pm
content: Sublime Text on Linux, Windows or OSX.Have VIM compatible mode.Takes a little learning, but is awesome.