---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arthur Pemberton [email protected] Date: May 12, 2006 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Linux question, GUI "lightweight" text editors To: Jack [email protected]

On 5/12/06, Jack [email protected] wrote:

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?

A link would have been nice: http://www.ultraedit.com/

For those that use Windows and don't use UltraEdit, you're missing out on the BEST Windows Editor there is.

Notepad.exe has always met my simple text editor needs, but that's jsut me.

Partial list of functions:

column or line text selection/editing,

I think vi/vim might do this.

search with regular expressions,

Kwrite, vi/vim

display/edit in hex,

Not sure, currently away from my machine.

search in a directory tree for a string returning all lines found with filename and line number and line of text,

Well no, that would be grep....however, this seems outside the classification of "lightweight"

replace in a directory tree a string,

Not sure

use special keystrokes in above two features to search and or replace or add nonprinting characters (e.g. newline), syntax highlighting,

Kwrite, Quanta, KDevelop, vi/vim

custom syntax definitions,

Not sure

word count,

Not sure

file position display (line and column),

Kwrite, Quanta, KDevelop, vi/vim

macros, line sorting, data conversion (e.g. ASCII -> EBCDIC), etc.

There are a lot more features, but I rarely use more than this. This seems like something relatively easy to do in Linux, as all the basic tools seem to be available in any distro, but I can't say I've seen any editor with all of them. UltraEdit is $20 btw, and well worth it. It's paid for itself for me many times over. I couldn't tell you how many hours of work it has saved me. In fact it paid for itself the first time I ever used it. I'd pay $20 for a Linux solution that did all this. I'd probably pay even more than $20 for it. Like I said, it looks easy, but not necessarily quick to build. I'm sure I could build one, if I had a few hundred hours of spare time.

If you are willing to pay, open up a bounty to add the missing features to your favoute Linux text editior.

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