[OT] Good GUI Text Editor

[Lawrence MacIntyre]

grab SciTE from www.scintilla.org.  It rules for program editing.  Also 
works on windows if you care...

John wrote:

> Do you think you could have a chat with mailsmith about wrapping text?
> Thanks.
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> Brett Kirksey wrote:
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>> I know there is a religious war over the best command line text 
>> editor, so I'm almost afraid to ask this question. But . . .
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>> 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?
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>> 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)?
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> xemacs is a fork of emacs and has a GUI.
> I mostly use gvim which is an implementatiion of vim with a GTK GUI,
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> I've tried most of the other GUI editors including Kate and Gedit. No 
> thanks.
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