Re: [PLUG] pls recommend a text editor

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

They don't seem like what you're looking for, but both emacs and vim
do column editing.

Walt

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:48:45AM -0400, Carl Johnson wrote:
> 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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