text editor for web development

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Michael Knepher wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 20:45 +0000, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> I am probably going to be switching from an Apple system to Ubuntu. On 
>> Apple I use TextMate, it's unbeatable. Obviously won't work on Ubuntu.
>>
>> So I am asking for suggestions of other great text editors. I don't mind 
>> KDE or Gnome,  but I am not going to consider vi or emacs. Does anyone 
>> here use a text editor for serious web development?
> 
> I'm not doing any web development these days, but I did use Bluefish
> quite extensively. 
> 
> I recently discovered gedit's plugins that give it some nice
> functionality. There are also a number of blog posts about giving gedit
> similar functionality as textmate:
> 
> http://www.thaumatocracy.com/textpad-for-linux
> 
> http://crepuscular-homunculus.blogspot.com/2007/10/gedit-for-ruby-and-everything-else-on.html
> 
> http://grigio.org/textmate_gedit_few_steps
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins
> 
> http://www.micahcarrick.com/09-29-2007/gedit-html-editor.html
> 
> 
>> I'll be coding in xhtml, css, php, and javascript, so is there something 
>> that has syntax highlighting and even word completion for these?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Gabe
>>
> 
> 

Thanks a lot, I'm going to check these links out. I did use bluefish a 
while back, it didn't really do much to help me other than syntax 
highlighting however. I'll check again though.
Many thanks

gabe