Text Editor For Linux Besides Vi

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Let me preface this question by saying I use TextMate on Mac OSX for my text needs and I am in love with it   Anything comparable on the Linux platform   I ll mostly use it for coding python ruby   Doing a google search yielded outdated answers   Edit   Since there has been some concern about the  merit  of this question   I am about to start a new Ruby Programming Project in Linux and before I got started I wanted to make sure I had the right tools to do the job   Edit  2   I use VIM on a daily basis -- all   the   time   I enjoy using it   I was just looking for some alternatives

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I personally use MacVim which is basically a GVim for Mac OSx. However I have been reading alot about Redcar, which is a text editor for Linux, which shares a lot of the Textmate functionality. Checkout the links below.

Redcar
LURG Lecture on Redcar

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The best I ve found is gedit unfortunately  Spend a few hours with it and you ll discover it s not so bad  with plugins and themes  You can use the command line to open documents in it

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I use pico or nano as my  casual  text editor in Linux Solaris etc   It s easy to come to grips with  and whilst you lose a couple of rows of text to the menu  at least it s easy to see how to exit  etc   You can even extend nano  I think  and add syntax highlighting

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I ve used Emacs for 20 years   It s great and it works everywhere   I also have TextMate  which I use for some things on the Mac  HTML mode is great    If you want to do Ruby development  Netbeans supports Ruby and it also runs on all platforms   http   www netbeans org features ruby index html  I ve seen some blogs  etc claiming that it s the best Ruby environment available

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I use sublime Text on linux

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I love TextMate on OSX   There is a kind of TextMate clone for Windows called simply  E   e-texteditor com   Its author promised that there will be a Linux version soon   Even if you already picked your favourite  TextMate  or E  is worth a look  simply because it is different   I would say that there are mainly four different families of text editors    classic menubar-based editors like WinEdit  Gedit or BBEdit Emacs and its brethren XEmacs  Aquamacs etc  VI   Vim   Cream and the like TextMate and E   You can differenciate between these families by their different paradigms of usage      Classic editors rely mainly on a menubar and some Ctrl-key shortcuts  Emacs-style editing uses highly sophisticated keyboard commands like C-x-s and even whole words to evoke commands  VI is modebased and is operated by single-key commands or whole words  TextMate is based on Snippets and classic shortcuts    Emacs and TextMate are also easily extensible by user-created scripts in Lisp  Emacs  or any other command-line-language  TextMate    Classic editors and VI are also extendable  but the effort is usually considerably bigger   I would recommend that everyone tried at least one good example of each of these families  if possible  and find out what suits them best

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First I don t want to start a war    I haven t used TextMate but I have used its Windows equivalent  e-TextEditor and I could understand why people love it   I ve also tried many text editors and IDEs in my quest in finding the perfect text editor on Linux   I ve tried jEdit  vim  emacs  although I used to love when I was at uni  and various others   On Linux I ve settled with gEdit  Although I do use Komodo Edit from time to time   When I m in a hurry I use gEdit purely because it is quicker than Komodo Edit   gEdit has plenty of plugins and comes with some nice colour schemes   I reckon once gEdit has a proper code-tidy facility it ll be cool  I think the only reason I use Komodo Edit is the project file facility   I have a friend who donated his  Vi Improved  book in the hope that he can convert me to Vim   The book is over an inch thick and completely put me off in investing time in learning Vim      Everytime I find an editor - I always find myself going back to gEdit   It is a frills-in-the-right-places editor  Give gEdit a go  it is the default text editor in Ubuntu and Linux Mint   Here is a link to an excellent guide on how to get gEdit to look and behave  somewhat  like TextMate  http   grigio org pimp my gedit was textmate linux  Hope that helps

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Friend of mine swears by jed  http   www jedsoft org jed

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Alternative text editors   Try Diakonos   a Linux editor for the masses    The default keyboard mapping is as expected for cut  copy  paste  undo  open  save  etc

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Sublime Text 2 is my favorite  Intuitively understandable and quite powerful

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I use joe for simple  and not so simple  editing when I m away from Eclipse   It uses the classic Wordstar keybindings- although I ve never used Wordstar  it s a selling point for many people   It s easy  well-supported  light-weight and it has binaries available for everything

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Kate  the KDE Advanced Text Editor is quite good  It has syntax highlighting  block selection mode  terminal console  sessions  window splitting both horizontal and vertical etc

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Best one besides Vi  Vim

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Try Scribes   It tries to be a TextMate replacement for Linux 2020 edit  forgotten in the mists of history

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On Mac OS X  I have used BBEdit since the early 1990 s  so I use that as my reference for all other editors  I sometimes use BBEdit to edit files on a Linux box using ftp mode  and that works very well if you have a fast network connection to the Linux box   I learned emacs two years ago because the rest of the programming team I joined uses it  I find emacs powerful but annoyingly old-fashioned in many ways  but once you have learned emacs  you can use it on any platform  Linux  OS X  Windows   This is the editor I use almost exclusively at work now  It is going to take me years to master all its features  though   I have also used gedit on Linux and found it very usable  but I haven t tried to use it as my primary editor for any project   I have a colleague at work who uses Komodo Edit 4 4  free from activestate com   running it on a Windows computer but using it in ftp mode so she can edit files on our Linux server  Komodo Edit has many nice features  but it takes a looonnnggg time to launch the first time

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When I searched for TextMate alternative for Linux  I ended up using Geany  It s not as powerfull  but still nice to work with  Great replacement for Kate

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I just thought I would recommend Ninja IDE  open source and all   I use it for all my Python development now days when I got a GUI to work with and looks the same when I am on my Windows and Linux machines   Ninja IDE

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for multiple tab text editor  medit  is the best   its like notepad   in windows   for stylish and good looking  schite Text editor   is best

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I agree with Mike  though I m a Vim die-hard  I ve been using GEdit quite frequently lately when I m doing lightweight Ruby scripting  The standard editor  plus Ruby code snippets  is extremely usable and polished  and can provide a nice reprieve from full-strength  always-on programming editors

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I love Kate because it has several interesting features  already cited  usually found in  heavier  IDEs  My favorite feature  however  is its terminal window that is very practical for quickly performing the save-compile-execute combo   Nedit is another valid option  packed with lots of features  and it hasn t lots of dependencies  that s a huge plus IMHO    For editing in a shell  when I cannot use VIM  I look immediately for pico or nano  but I would not recommend them for continuous development  for rapid editing they are perfect

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Don t forget NEdit   Small and light  but with syntax highlighting and macro record replay

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I use SciTE very small and simple text editor

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SciTE http   www scintilla org SciTE html

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I find Geany  http   geany uvena de   quite good

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Vim is a nice upgrade for Vi  offering decent features and a more usable set of keybindings and default behaviour  However  graphical versions like GVim  KVim and even Cream are extremely lacking in my opinion  I ve been using Geany a lot lately  but it also has its shortcomings   I just can t find something in the league of Programmers Notepad  Smultron or TextMate on Linux  A shame  since I want to live in an all open source cyberworld  I m stuck hopping from one almost-right editor to another

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I ve just started using OSX  Free editors of note that I ve discovered    Komodo by ActiveState  No debugger or regex editor  although one comes with Python  i e  redemo py  in free version but perfectly usable  ERIC  written in PyQT  Eclipse with PyDev is my preferred option for editing Python on all platforms  Nice clean GUI  decent debugger  Good syntax parsing etc

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1 for pico nano -- lightweight  gets the job done  good help

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You could give bluefish a try  Has a bunch of nice features for website work  Syntax files for most every language    http   bluefish openoffice nl   If on windows give Crimson Editor a try http   www crimsoneditor com  It s been a long while since I ran windows  but iirc   official  development has stopped on it  but the community has taken up a fork of it and called it emerald or somesuch  Crimson editor is still very capable as is   Both bluefish and crimson editor have project management abilities  FTP ablilities  macros etc etc

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TextMate is a great editor  and there is a way to replicate some of the functionality in GEdit  Check the article out here  http   rubymm blogspot com 2007 08 make-gedit-behave-roughly-like-textmate html to modify GEdit to behave like TextMate

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If it s just you   Use what you want to use today  switch in mid-stream if you want   Is it a team   Try to be editor-agnostic   Set standards for white-space  are tabs allowed   How many spaces does a tab represent    but otherwise allow anyone to use whichever editor they want   Is it a team doing pair-programming   That s where you may need a team-standard editor  just so that programmers can easily pass the keyboard   To help implement a standard white-space policy in a shop where one or more coders is using Emacs  You can tell Emacs about your white-space policy with some comments stuck at the bottom of every file source file   For example     Local Variables    tab-width  2   ruby-indent-level  2   indent-tabs-mode  nil   End    Anyone using emacs  or xemacs  on that file will automatically get the group standard indentation

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Emacs is a wonderful text editor   It has huge power once you become a power user   You can access a shell  have as many files open as you want in as many sub-windows and an extremely powerful scripting support that lets you add all kinds of neat features   I have been using a ruby-mode which adds syntax highlighting and whatnot to ruby  and the same exists for every major language   If you keep at it  you can use exclusively the keyboard and never touch the mouse  which increases your editing speed by a significant margin   If you want to start with something a lot more basic though  gedit is nice    it has built in syntax highlighting as well for most languages based on the filename extension   It comes with the OS as well  though emacs you can easily install with apt-get or some similar package finder utility    UPDATE  I think gedit is exclusively GUI based though  so it would be useful to learn emacs in case you are stuck with just a shell  it is fully featured in both shell and graphical mode    FURTHER UPDATE  Just FYI  I am not trying to push Emacs over Vim  it s just what I use  and it s a great editor  as I m sure Vim is too    It is daunting at first  as I m sure Vim is too   but the question was about text editors on Linux besides vi    Emacs seems the logical choice to me  but gedit is a great simple text editor with some nice features if that s all you are looking for

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You can try Emacs with ruby-mode  Rinari  for Rails  and yasnippet which provides automatic snippets like Textmate

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I like the versatility of jEdit  http   www jedit org   its got a lot of plugins  crossplatform and has also stuff like block selection which I use all the time   The downside is  because it is written in java  it is not the fastest one

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