I'm switching my desktop back to FreeBSD for good 
. Read that as you will - goodness or permanence. Either way, you're prolly right. After using Linux for a year (Mint, then MX, then Gentoo, most recently), I've grown addicted to living in a Windowless world and having control of my environment. After the Gentoo stint, I've decided on sticking to a Systemd-less world and a straightforward package management environment. Also, I've decided that life with ZFS and ZFS on root is an absolute necessity. OMG I missed being able to blow stuff away and near instantly recover. The Linux tools - LVM and btrfs - ew, yuck, seems like the stone age... aka 1990's, all over again. It's been an hour and a half since I put FreeBSD back on and after a 5 minute install ZFS on root and 10 minutes of installing packages, I've already got VirtualBox running Window, Linux, etc. had a couple of zoom meetings using the web version (Firefox-esr doesn't crash when sharing screen). Life's good. Anyhow, enough rant and ZFS fanboying, it's good to be back on FreeBSD for a desktop.
What I'm after now is a text editor that I can live with (besides my bff vi). On linux, I've grown used to sublime for everything but printing. It's available in the repos as linux-sublime-text4 and if all else fails, I may succumb to installing the linux stuff, but really?! Can't I just run freebsd without adding in linux stuff?
Anyhow, I'm looking for some suggestions and advice here. I want to be conscious of dragging in the sink along with my editor. What gui editors do you use and is it a big deal if it drags in its dependencies - what do y'all think (no flames, please)?
These three are my favorites:
Kate and it's definitely top of class, but isn't all that kde stuff a lot of baggage?
Sublime, but isn't that linux stuff a lot of baggage?
Gedit, and while I hate Gnome, gedit's great, but isn't all that gnome stuff a lot... you get the idea.
Other's I've tried but found either too simple or annoying:
Whatever Mint's default editor is - it's great, but I'm pretty sure it's not available as a package.
leafpad, mousepad, xed - great for quick edits, but not great for the long haul.
gvim - why, vim works as well and it's confusing like it's vim, but not...
emacs - just why?
On Mac, I used BBEdit until I switched to Kate. On Windows, I started with UltraEdit, moved to Notepad++. BBEdit, UltraEdit and Notepad++ are outstanding editors, but don't seem to be readily available on FreeBSD (might work under wine, haven't tried it in FreeBSD, but did work in Linux), but they're not native or native-like.
So, if you have advise relative to kate, sublime, gedit, please tell me how to think about 'em, maybe it's not bad that they have so many dependencies - just seems wrong to me. Also, if you have other suggestions, I'm eager to hear about them.
. Read that as you will - goodness or permanence. Either way, you're prolly right. After using Linux for a year (Mint, then MX, then Gentoo, most recently), I've grown addicted to living in a Windowless world and having control of my environment. After the Gentoo stint, I've decided on sticking to a Systemd-less world and a straightforward package management environment. Also, I've decided that life with ZFS and ZFS on root is an absolute necessity. OMG I missed being able to blow stuff away and near instantly recover. The Linux tools - LVM and btrfs - ew, yuck, seems like the stone age... aka 1990's, all over again. It's been an hour and a half since I put FreeBSD back on and after a 5 minute install ZFS on root and 10 minutes of installing packages, I've already got VirtualBox running Window, Linux, etc. had a couple of zoom meetings using the web version (Firefox-esr doesn't crash when sharing screen). Life's good. Anyhow, enough rant and ZFS fanboying, it's good to be back on FreeBSD for a desktop.What I'm after now is a text editor that I can live with (besides my bff vi). On linux, I've grown used to sublime for everything but printing. It's available in the repos as linux-sublime-text4 and if all else fails, I may succumb to installing the linux stuff, but really?! Can't I just run freebsd without adding in linux stuff?
Anyhow, I'm looking for some suggestions and advice here. I want to be conscious of dragging in the sink along with my editor. What gui editors do you use and is it a big deal if it drags in its dependencies - what do y'all think (no flames, please)?
These three are my favorites:
Kate and it's definitely top of class, but isn't all that kde stuff a lot of baggage?
Sublime, but isn't that linux stuff a lot of baggage?
Gedit, and while I hate Gnome, gedit's great, but isn't all that gnome stuff a lot... you get the idea.
Other's I've tried but found either too simple or annoying:
Whatever Mint's default editor is - it's great, but I'm pretty sure it's not available as a package.
leafpad, mousepad, xed - great for quick edits, but not great for the long haul.
gvim - why, vim works as well and it's confusing like it's vim, but not...
emacs - just why?
On Mac, I used BBEdit until I switched to Kate. On Windows, I started with UltraEdit, moved to Notepad++. BBEdit, UltraEdit and Notepad++ are outstanding editors, but don't seem to be readily available on FreeBSD (might work under wine, haven't tried it in FreeBSD, but did work in Linux), but they're not native or native-like
.So, if you have advise relative to kate, sublime, gedit, please tell me how to think about 'em, maybe it's not bad that they have so many dependencies - just seems wrong to me. Also, if you have other suggestions, I'm eager to hear about them.
