[Nottingham] Are there any decent linux text editors?

[Christopher Joice]

I'm a fan of gedit, the gnome editor, syntax highlights, searching, etc.
I also like nano, combined with some config files to do hightlighting.

On 15 November 2010 22:45, Dave <daveluff at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Yes, I know it's a slightly provocative subject line, but really, I'm at
> my wits end after trying to find an editor that does what I want.  All
> I'm looking for is an editor that's "normal" (i.e. runs in a gui window
> and uses standard Windows key commands) and has a find-in-files dialog
> that includes the ability to search subdirectories.  Like this
> screenshot:
>
> http://www.pnotepad.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/207fif.png
>
> which is open-source, but is unfortunately Windows only.
>
> On Windows I use jedit, but unfortunately it just doesn't seem to run as
> well on Linux, and chokes on files with any ascii codes in the upper
> half of the range.  It would be excellent if it didn't depend on Java I
> guess.  Notepad++ is excellent but windows only.  On Linux scite almost
> does what I want, but the find-in-files doesn't include the option to
> search sub-directories.  There's loads of linux editors that sound like
> they're the dog's whats-it's on their home page, but turn out to be ugly
> dos-like things that run in a terminal when I install them (fte, ne,
> etc).
>
> So back to the original question - are there any text editors for Linux
> that will actually cut the mustard with respect to my very modest
> requirements?  Or will I have to resort to hacking scite to search
> sub-directories?
>
> Cheers - Dave
>
> P.S. emacs and vi/vim most definitely do NOT fall in my definition of
> normal ;-)
>
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