[Nottingham] Are there any decent linux text editors?

[Rory Holland]

Gedit is my go-to GUI text editor.
See also Kate, which is a bit more advanced.

If you literally want the most basic editor you can find, you can do a lot
worse than Mousepad.

On 15 November 2010 22:56, Rohaq <rohaq at dearinternet.com> wrote:

> 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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