We have TextPad avail. at work. It seems to do more than Notepad and more geared to programming, config files and crap I do than Word (to your mother).
Why don't you start by telling us which editors you've tried, that don't fit the bill. Make it a list and save us the multiplicity of emails that say, "you can do all this with vi/vim/emacs/gedit/kate/beaver/Ted/kedit." Yes, I said Beaver. And it has syntax highlighting. :-) http://www.nongnu.org/beaver/index.html
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Jack
For those out there familiar with UltraEdit in Windows, I have a questioon. Is there a single Linux Editor that has most if not all the features of UltraEdit?
Partial list of functions:
column or line text selection/editing, search with regular expressions, display/edit in hex, search in a directory tree for a string returning all lines found with filename and line number and line of text, replace in a directory tree a string, use special keystrokes in above two features to search and or replace or add nonprinting characters (e.g. newline), syntax highlighting, custom syntax definitions, word count, file position display (line and column), macros, line sorting, data conversion (e.g. ASCII -> EBCDIC), etc.
Brian JD
--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" wrote:
... Why don't you start by telling us which editors you've tried, that don't fit the bill. Make it a list and save us the multiplicity of emails that say, "you can do all this with vi/vim/emacs/gedit/kate/beaver/Ted/kedit." Yes, I said Beaver. And it has syntax highlighting. :-) http://www.nongnu.org/beaver/index.html
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Jack
For those out there familiar with UltraEdit in
Windows, I have
a questioon. Is there a single Linux Editor that
has most if
not all the features of UltraEdit?
Partial list of functions:
column or line text selection/editing, search with regular expressions, display/edit in hex, search in a directory tree for a string returning
all lines
found with filename and line number and line of
text, replace
in a directory tree a string, use special
keystrokes in above
two features to search and or replace or add
nonprinting
characters (e.g. newline), syntax highlighting, custom syntax definitions, word count, file position display (line and column), macros,
line sorting,
data conversion (e.g. ASCII -> EBCDIC), etc.
I haven't tried beaver. You can't do this in vi/vim/emacs/gedit/kate/kedit. At least not that I have seen.
While I'm at it, let me add some requirements. It has to run as a GUI editor, and the features have to be incorporated into the editor as one of the following: a) by a pulldown/popup menu item, b) a setup option, or c) a checkbox on a dialog.
This means the feature has to be easily found and implemented by the editor, i.e. no learning curve to speak of. Now if these features are included in kate or gedit then they must be hard to find. Sure they have some of the features of UltraEdit, but not some of the more powerful. I couldn't tell you all the editors I've tried. I've tried all the ones you listed except beaver. I have no doubt that emacs can do all the things I asked for and more, but not via a menu or setup or checkbox click. While I will confess that keyboard shortcuts are far faster than using the mouse, they are useless unless you can remember them or access them quickly. But even keyboard shortcuts are slower than set and forget "preferences" or "settings". Does this narrow your list Brian?
Thanks, Brian JD
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Jack -
Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO