[Nottingham] Are there any decent linux text editors?

[Rohaq]

I did not know nano could do syntax highlighting. Interesting.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 22:54, Christopher Joice <christopher at c25.eu> wrote:

> 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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