Linux text editor = or > BBEdit

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Brown:

Christopher Brown wrote:
> I'm in search of a BBEdit replacement.
> [...]
> 
> What does the PPC Linux world offer that is close to
> BBEdit? [...] I want color coded text, massive search
> and replace with or without grep, smart application
> that recognizes different coding languages (html,
> pearl, c, java, etc.) and can deal with them like
> BBEdit can. The GUI is important here too. The least
> of it's shining acheivements is it's easy to use,
> unobtrusive GUI.

I have played briefly with several of the *many* text editors available 
with Yellow Dog Linux. None of them quite matches BBEdit's feature set, 
but you can hunt among them for one that most meets your needs.

GUI-based editors include kedit, nedit, gedit (beginning to see a 
pattern?), kate, joe, jed, gawk, and probably several I have forgotten. 
Try them all until you find one that you like. I have played mostly with 
kedit, gedit, and kate. For a while I preferred gedit, though, for the 
life of me, I cannot recall why.

As an aside, although I am a GUI fan, I think it is worth your while to 
learn at least one of the console-based text editors, since so many 
Linux tasks must be performed in that environment. Who knows, you may 
actually learn to prefer one of the console-based editors? Some, like 
emacs (or xemacs) and vi/vim have become exceedingly powerful (and 
exceedingly arcane and complex). emacs, for instance, can do more than 
just about any text editor you have ever used, and as much as some 
entire operating systems (look for "games" in the built-in help system 
:-) ). pico and its clone nano are the most GUI-like of the command line 
editors, and have the shortest learning curve, so I tend to use them 
when possible. However, they are the least feature-rich of the 
console-based editors, so I have been meaning to force myself to learn 
vi or emacs.

Let us know what you settle on!

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>