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Re: [PLUG] pls recommend a text editor
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:59:48 -0400
From: "John Karr"<brainbuz@brainbuz.org>
Notepad++
+1 for Notepad++ on Windows.
Is GPL and Windows Native. It even runs well on wine, except for one major
bug, if a file it has open changes on the disk it freezes and needs to be
killed with kill.
I haven't tried N++ under Wine, but that bug would be a show stopper for me.
On Linux (if not using vim) I use a tweaked Gedit [1] or Geany, both of
which (IIRC) use Scintilla [2], which is the basic editing widget also
used by Notepad++. There's also scite, which uses Scintilla too and
which I just noticed is cross-platform. Using Scintilla under the
covers doesn't mean they are identical, but they are pretty close.
FWIW, the way I usually approach questions like this is to see what's in
the Ubuntu repos, find something I like, then see if there is a Windows
port (if needed). This works pretty well:
apt-cache search <keyword> | sort | less
apt-cache show <package>
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciTE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B%2B
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors
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[1] For gedit, I use gedit_tabpgupdown.tar.gz so you can switch tabs
using CTRL-PgUp/PgDn. I still haven't figured out how to make it
spell-check by default though. And make sure you install
'gedit-plugins' and then check out Edit > Prefs > Plugins.
Getting gedit_tabpgupdown to work is tedious:
## See http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins
$ wget -O '/tmp/gedit_tabpgupdown.tar.gz'
'http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins?action=gedit_AttachFile&do=get&target=tabpgupdown.tar.gz'
$ mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins && cd $_
$ tar --strip-components=1 -xvzf /tmp/gedit_tabpgupdown.tar.gz
## (Re-)start gedit, Edit > Prefs > Plugins: enable TabPgUpDown
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_%28editing_component%29
Later,
JP
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