[NTLUG:Discuss] Finding out what editors are available...

[Kyle Davenport]

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

True!  If you were to install all the packages on RedHat 8.0, a simple rpm
query of:

> rpm -q -g Applications/Editors --queryformat '%{name}   - %{Summary}\n'
xemacs   - A different version of Emacs.
quanta   - An HTML editor for KDE.
vim-minimal   - A minimal version of the VIM editor.
nedit   - A GUI text editor for systems with X and Motif.
emacspeak   - A speech interface for Emacs
nvi-m17n   - Common files for the nvi multilingualized text editor.
khexedit   - Hex editor
emacs-el   - The sources for elisp programs included with Emacs.
nvi-m17n-nocanna   - The nvi multiligualized text editor without support
for Canna.
abiword   - A cross-platform word processor.
joe   - An easy to use, modeless text editor.
hexedit   - A hexadecimal file viewer and editor.
xemacs-info   - Information files for XEmacs.
vim-common   - The common files needed by any version of the VIM editor.
emacs   - The GNU Emacs text editor.
vim-enhanced   - A version of the VIM editor which includes recent
enhancements.
psgml   - A GNU Emacs major mode for editing SGML documents.
ruby-mode   - Emacs Lisp ruby-mode for the scripting language Ruby
emacs-leim   - Emacs Lisp code for input methods for international
characters.
vim-X11   - The VIM version of the vi editor for the X Window System.
flim   - Library to provide basic features about message for Emacs
kedit   - An easy to use text editor
apel   - A Portable Emacs Library.
gedit   - A text editor for GNOME.
xemacs-el   - The .el source files for XEmacs.
ddskk   - Daredevil SKK - Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program for Emacs
jed   - A fast, compact editor based on the S-Lang screen library.
flim-xemacs   - Library to provide basic features about message for XEmacs
ddskk-xemacs   - Daredevil SKK - Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program
for XEmacs