On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:02, H wrote: > On 02/02/2016 03:50 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On 02/02/2016 09:28 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> > CentOS is not a bleeding-edge distribution that constantly keeps >> > packages up to date with the upstream projects. If you want that, try >> > another distribution like Fedora. >> <rant> >> GNOME can get a rebase to a newer version, but KDE can't..... this from a >> former KDE user who would love to go back to KDE but refuses to deal with >> the issues older versions have. >> >> This is, of course, an upstream issue and not a CentOS one, and I know >> that.... so I now use GNOME, even though it would be nice to see parity in >> the allowing of a rebase of KDE like the one for GNOME. >> </rant> >> >> >> > There is a 3rd-party repository that might have an upgraded KDE: >> > http: //www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php >> > >> >> Trinity Desktop (TDE), is a fork of KDE 3.x, and not updated from that. So >> in ways it is older, yet newer. >> > What do people use as a programming editor on CentOS 6? My first impression of > kate was favorable, not only did it support the usual programming and > scripting languages but also markdown which I have recently discovered... Well, KDE has its own trouble, even upstream, and for RedHat / Fedora packagers KDE seems a clear second or third choice to work on. The Gnome upgrade from Centos 7.1 to 7.2 was "urgs" and has driven me to switch to XFCE even @work, where I had to ask the sys-admins for allowance beforehand. vim / gvim / jedit Vim and its graphical frontend gvim are in use for nearly all my tasks as text-editors. A special place in my heart has (g)vimdiff which is a great help im my daily work (shell-scripts, php, css, html, js, and markdown make most the volume) The availability of a very powerfull text editor that can be worked with in a terminal the same whether local or remote (via ssh) gives a concistency that other editors lack, or, in the case of emacs, are not my taste at all. Jedit is java based, and for me in use where projects span bejond a single Operating System (Linux, Solaris, Windows and MacOS mostly). - Yamaban