Re: [PLUG] pls recommend a text editor

[Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com>]

do any of these do column editing? i've been having a hard time
finding a free editor that supports that feature.

On 8/19/10, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
> ___________________
> [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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