Comments | inferis: [Geek, Dear Lazyweb] Ubuntu Text Editor

inferis

[Geek, Dear Lazyweb] Ubuntu Text Editor

Jan 27, 2009 20:53

So, I find myself in need of a decent text editor on the Ubuntu system I'm running. I've been using a combination of vim and gedit depending on context, but what I really need is a decent tabbed editor with a built-in system browser, something a little like Notepad++ or Crimson Editor on Windows ( Read more... )

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gaius_octavian January 27 2009, 21:24:57 UTC

Nedit or Komodo Edit. Never used either of them on Umbuntu tho' so I don't know what weird dependencies they might have.

inferis January 27 2009, 21:35:41 UTC

Ta, Nedit looks horrifically ugly though - it puts me in mind of early java UIs (which were part of the reason I never bothered picking it up). I remember you mentioning Komodo before and I was trying to recall the name :) It's still downloading at the moment, I'm sure I'll update with my experiences later.

gaius_octavian January 27 2009, 21:39:33 UTC

It's what you're used to. Nedit looks perfectly natural to me, but I started out using Motif not MS Windows :-)

inferis January 27 2009, 21:47:52 UTC

Meh, what I'm used to is something that's had a team of actual UI designers work on it.

Strictly, what I started out using was an Archimedes anyway.

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dan_lane January 27 2009, 22:04:53 UTC

I know this is probably not what you're after, but I use screen and vim.

inferis January 27 2009, 22:45:59 UTC

I will kill you with a spork :)

vi >> emacs merlinc January 27 2009, 23:06:09 UTC

I accidentally launched text-Emacs a few weeks ago, and had to kill the process because I couldn't work out which meta-bucky-hickey keys it wanted so it would quit without saving.

Re: vi >> emacs pir January 27 2009, 23:33:56 UTC

control-x, control-c
Even if you hate emacs and will never use it for editing, that's the one command you should remember :)

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FWIW merlinc January 27 2009, 23:03:20 UTC

I've downloaded Bluefish, Geany and Scite onto my Eee pc.

Out of these Scite seems to give me the most text editing for my resolution.

Re: FWIW inferis January 28 2009, 09:12:30 UTC

I'll give it a try, ta.

Re: FWIW inferis January 28 2009, 18:08:35 UTC

SciTE doesn't appear to have the project browser window I'm needing.

Komodo Edit looks to be the winner so far...

anatosuchus January 28 2009, 20:02:24 UTC

I typically use either kate or gedit for this kind of thing. You can probably "fix" kate by tweaking either the built-in settings or the underlying KDE settings for fonts and the like.