Fwd: Linux question, GUI "lightweight" text editors

[Arthur Pemberton]

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From: Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>
Date: May 12, 2006 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: Linux question, GUI "lightweight" text editors
To: Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com>


On 5/12/06, Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> 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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