{"id":8691,"date":"2024-12-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2024-11-26T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:51:46","slug":"5-popular-articles-about-editing-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=8691","title":{"rendered":"5 popular articles about editing text"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you need to manipulate text in a document and add formatting like bold and italic type, you might use a word processor like LibreOffice. Word processors are powerful applications that create formatted output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you don’t always need to create formatted documents. Sometimes, you just need to edit a file as plain text<\/em>. And for that, you need a plain text editor. Fortunately, there are many text editors to choose from. We’ve shared several highlights of text editors this year \u2013 here are 5 articles that share the love of text editors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best 3 cross-platform text editors<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When coding or when creating content intended for several delivery targets, such as a markup language that provides its own formatting, you need a plain text editor. Seth shared this review of Pulsar, VSCodium, and GNU Emacs to write plain text with no extra baggage, on a variety of different platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great thing about plain text is that it\u2019s plain text no matter what you use it in. The important thing is that you find a good open source text editor that works well for you. Try the editors Seth mentioned in this article to get started with editing text the way you want it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editing files with FreeDOS Edlin<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Back in the early days of DOS and PC computing, Tim Paterson created the Edlin editor as a line editor. While Edlin was replaced by full-screen text editors, the Edlin editor lives on in FreeDOS Edlin, originally written by Gregory Pietsch. FreeDOS Edlin is very similar to the classic Edlin, but easier to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I use Edlin when I want to write something quickly, like a test program or a brief note. Edlin is also very useful if you want to capture some commands into a FreeDOS batch file; you can write the new batch file while any commands you ran are still visible on the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I configure Vim as my default editor on Linux<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vim is a popular implementation of the classic vi<\/strong> editor from original Unix systems. Vim supports a variety of extensions that make it a handy editor for writing programs, creating markup text, and editing other kinds of files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Linux command-line tools and programs check the $EDITOR<\/strong> environment variable to determine which editor to use. In this article, David explains how to use this system variable to define Vim as his default editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite Vim color schemes<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vim provides a ton of flexibility that works well for me, so I use it as my default editor. However, I\u2019m not fond of the default color scheme that Vim uses; I find the colors a bit \u201ctoo much\u201d for me. And I don\u2019t like how highlighting one bracket of a pair (like {<\/strong> and }<\/strong> in programming) can make it appear as though my cursor has disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Vim is very extensible, and supports extensions like color schemes. I decided to explore what other color themes Vim offered to find one that worked well for me. Here are several of my favorite Vim color schemes that I like to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little Vim trick I learned today<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you copy and paste text existing code into a Vim editing session, you may find that each pasted line is indented further towards the right of the screen. Also, once this autoindent feature detects a comment line, all lines after that are converted to comments. David shares a quick fix using Vim’s configuration options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text editors just do plain text. Explore these top 5 articles about text editors that you can use to edit files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":3683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[512,218],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-both-org","category-text-editors","tag-text-editors"],"modified_by":"Jim Hall","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8692,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions\/8692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}