[Nottingham] Are there any decent linux text editors?

[Rohaq]

gedit seems to work well enough to be bundled in with Ubuntu, but I prefer
emacs myself, although you said you already hated it, I'd still give it a go
and grab a cheat sheet [
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/guides/package/emacs/emacs.html] for quick
reference; I always find it odd when people move over the Linux and
immediately want to make it as much like Windows as possible. It makes me
wonder why you moved away from Windows in the first place? :)

Best of luck!

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 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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