Linux question, GUI "lightweight" text editors

[Jack]

--- "Jason D. Clinton" wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 23:22 -0700, Jack wrote:
> > ...blah blah ....
> 
> I hate Java as much as the next guy but JEdit has
> every feature you
> listed. It's widely praised as the best alternative
> to Vim and Emacs. I
> can't stand the ugliness of Java sometimes so I only
> use it when I need
> to.
So it does! So why didn't you say so earlier? Now all
I have to do is get it to install in debian. Thanks.
It looks like exactly what I was looking for. I have
no issues with java so that won't bother me any. Not
sure why there sems to be such hatred about java.

Thanx,
Brian jd