Linux text editors redux
May. 13th, 2006 02:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenCoo. Thanks to all the suggestions, and with some creative Googling ably assisted by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
baljemmett, I have found something that looks like just the job.
It's SETEdit, and basically it's the Borland Turbo-compilers editor, reimplemented in a cross-platform stylie under the GPL. Not only does it do all the sort of things I expect, like moving a word at a time with Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right, selecting text with Shift+cursors, menus with Alt-[letter] or F10 to activate the menu bar, but it does syntax highlighting and integration with debuggers and all the sorts of grown-up things that programmers seem to like. And other essential functions like, er, playing MP3s...
Alas, doesn't come with Ubuntu, but relatively easy to install - Debian packages are provided.
I will be amused by the expressions on the faces of my Unix-fancying friends when they see this thing. I anticipate nausea.
But if you're coming across from Windows and are doing things from the command line - which you have to sometimes, and driving Linux this way means a lot of file editing - then this could be a big help. Worth checking out.
Cheers for the tip, Ben!
baljemmett, I have found something that looks like just the job.It's SETEdit, and basically it's the Borland Turbo-compilers editor, reimplemented in a cross-platform stylie under the GPL. Not only does it do all the sort of things I expect, like moving a word at a time with Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right, selecting text with Shift+cursors, menus with Alt-[letter] or F10 to activate the menu bar, but it does syntax highlighting and integration with debuggers and all the sorts of grown-up things that programmers seem to like. And other essential functions like, er, playing MP3s...
Alas, doesn't come with Ubuntu, but relatively easy to install - Debian packages are provided.
I will be amused by the expressions on the faces of my Unix-fancying friends when they see this thing. I anticipate nausea.
But if you're coming across from Windows and are doing things from the command line - which you have to sometimes, and driving Linux this way means a lot of file editing - then this could be a big help. Worth checking out.
Cheers for the tip, Ben!
