[Nottingham] Are there any decent linux text editors?

[Dave]

My gedit has no search in directory option that I can see (ubuntu
10.04).  I haven't tried nano - I'll give it a whirl.

Cheers - Dave

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 22:54 +0000, Christopher Joice 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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