Gedit is my go-to GUI text editor.<div>See also Kate, which is a bit more advanced.</div><div><br></div><div>If you literally want the most basic editor you can find, you can do a lot worse than Mousepad.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 15 November 2010 22:56, Rohaq <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rohaq@dearinternet.com">rohaq@dearinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I did not know nano could do syntax highlighting. Interesting.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 22:54, Christopher Joice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christopher@c25.eu" target="_blank">christopher@c25.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm a fan of gedit, the gnome editor, syntax highlights, searching, etc.<div>I also like nano, combined with some config files to do hightlighting.<div>
<div></div><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 November 2010 22:45, Dave <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveluff@ntlworld.com" target="_blank">daveluff@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi List,<br>
<br>
Yes, I know it's a slightly provocative subject line, but really, I'm at<br>
my wits end after trying to find an editor that does what I want. All<br>
I'm looking for is an editor that's "normal" (i.e. runs in a gui window<br>
and uses standard Windows key commands) and has a find-in-files dialog<br>
that includes the ability to search subdirectories. Like this<br>
screenshot:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.pnotepad.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/207fif.png" target="_blank">http://www.pnotepad.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/207fif.png</a><br>
<br>
which is open-source, but is unfortunately Windows only.<br>
<br>
On Windows I use jedit, but unfortunately it just doesn't seem to run as<br>
well on Linux, and chokes on files with any ascii codes in the upper<br>
half of the range. It would be excellent if it didn't depend on Java I<br>
guess. Notepad++ is excellent but windows only. On Linux scite almost<br>
does what I want, but the find-in-files doesn't include the option to<br>
search sub-directories. There's loads of linux editors that sound like<br>
they're the dog's whats-it's on their home page, but turn out to be ugly<br>
dos-like things that run in a terminal when I install them (fte, ne,<br>
etc).<br>
<br>
So back to the original question - are there any text editors for Linux<br>
that will actually cut the mustard with respect to my very modest<br>
requirements? Or will I have to resort to hacking scite to search<br>
sub-directories?<br>
<br>
Cheers - Dave<br>
<br>
P.S. emacs and vi/vim most definitely do NOT fall in my definition of<br>
normal ;-)<br>
<br>
<br>
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