[OT] Good GUI Text Editor

[Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN]

i understand this thread is regarding gui editors but is vi such a pariah?

or am i just old fogey?

i love vi, pico, jed and of course emacs ifthat possible.

i even like word.....hmmm. nenver thought i say that but it does everything
i want

its just on a screwed up platform...winbloze...

v/r,

piranha 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of John
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:34 PM
Cc: Ubuntu Users List
Subject: Re: [OT] Good GUI Text Editor


Do you think you could have a chat with mailsmith about wrapping text?
Thanks.

Brett Kirksey wrote:
> I know there is a religious war over the best command line text editor, so
I'm almost afraid to ask this question. But . . .
> 
> In OS X I do about 90% of my work in BBEdit. BBEdit is a wonderful text
editor with syntax coloring, multiple programming language support, html
tools, shell tools, ftp, plug-in architecture, regular expressions, and of
course advanced text editing tools. What is the equivalent app in
Ubuntu/Linux?
> 
> I looked at gedit that is intalled with Ubuntu. At least it has line
numbering, text coloring and some basic text editing tools, but is there
something that has it all (with a GUI--for the people about to yell emacs)?

xemacs is a fork of emacs and has a GUI.
I mostly use gvim which is an implementatiion of vim with a GTK GUI,

I've tried most of the other GUI editors including Kate and Gedit. No 
thanks.



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