Re: Good ReStructuredText editors

Virgil Arrington schrieb am Freitag, den 12.12.2014 um 13:03:
> On 12/12/2014 10:15 AM, Peter Funk wrote:
> > I've hesitated to respond because I'm one of those greybeards using 
> > VIM and therefore don't know much about Gedit and never tried the 
> > reStructuredText plugin for it: http://kib2.alwaysdata.net/GEdit/
> 
> I've downloaded both VIM and Emacs, and I must say they both look 
> impressive in their respective feature sets, and their users seem 
> fiercely loyal. But, in both cases, as soon as I try to start using 
> them, the learning curve hits me in the face. They are sooooo different 
> from anything else I've ever used. I'd really like to learn them (or one 
> of them), but right now, it's a little like tackling Greek.

I remember well: In 1983 or 1984 when I had to learn 'vi'
because it was the only visual editor available for Unix
in our University at that time I had similar feelings. ☺
Fortunately times have changed a lot since.

Did you know that both VIM and Emacs today also come with
a decent graphical user interface which can help you a lot as
training wheels on your first steps?

Since you mentioned gedit I assume you are using some flavor of Linux.
On several Linux distributions you have to install one or 
more additional software packages to get the GUI command gvim:
For example either "vim-gtk" or "vim-gnome" on Ubuntu Linux.
The windows package however: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim74.exe 
already includes both the GUI and console versions.

Back to your original question: The Tools menu of gvim contains
a sub menu called: "Folding" which allows to collapse and expand
chapters, sections and subsections of large documents at will.

I'm pretty sure that the other text editors (Emacs, Leo) will provide
similar features.  I've seen screenshots of Leo a while back which
looked pretty promising in this regard:
http://leoeditor.com/slides/leo-basics-step-by-step/slide-011.html

BTW: Thanks to this thread I've also learned something new about
Emacs: I remember times when one had to install a forked version
package called XEmacs to get the GUI for Emacs.  As a vi user
I never noticed that this is no longer true. ☺

Best Regards,
Peter Funk
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