On 02/02/2016 07:19 PM, Yamaban wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thank you, I will look at them. I did download the markdown plugin for gedit and used that editor for now.