[clug] Tame Linux perl editor

Francis Whittle fudje at phreaker.net
Mon Jan 17 22:45:08 GMT 2005


Got Gnome?  gEdit is pretty good.  And pretty, too.  It's not exactly an
IDE, but does all sorts of cool stuff.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit 

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:33 +1100, Michael James wrote:
> What is the best way for naive users to remotely edit perl code?
> 
> Situation:		They are SSHed into a remote Linux box.
> Possibly:		They can invoke X apps. (See previous posting)
> Bonus points:	Syntax highlighting, IDE.
> 
> Some possibilities:
> 
> Vi, vim?
> 	What I use, but will send my class running screaming for the hills.
> 
> Emacs?
> 	Need an editor not an OS, sends me running screaming for the hills.
> 
> EDT?	Never heard of this till one of my users requested it,
> 		 fortunately joe emulates it.
> 
> Joe?		With or without emulation.
> 
> Jedit?
> 
> Pico?
> 
> Other?	Got any suggestions?
> 
> TIA,
> michaelj



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