[NTLUG:Discuss] Finding out what editors are available on my Linux system

[Greg Edwards]

Steve Baker wrote:
> jay linux wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to find out what editors (VI, EMACS, etc) are available 
>> on my linux system?
> 
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Try each one you can think of - if it's there, it's there - and if it's
> not, it's not.
> 
> Most distro's install both some flavor of vi and GNU Emacs by 
> default...but which
> others are there is a complete lottery.

Not sure on other distros but Mandrake's package manager can list you 
packages by group and one of the groups (IIRC) is editors.

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