Editor like Textpad on Linux?

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Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

thanks for your help!
Dominik

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Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

Tried WINE?

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If you’re running KDE, try Kate. Good Ruby syntax coloring support.

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:19:32 +0900, Dominik Werder wrote:

Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to
know if there is something like textpad for linux. I know that vi and
emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool sidebar where
textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it and then you
can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped. I’m sure thats
also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

thanks for your help!
Dominik

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Dominik Werder wrote:

Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to
know if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

thanks for your help!
Dominik

what I like is jedit (http://www.jedit.org)

written in Java, so not the fastest, but fast enough. only startup is
slow.

jedit is free (GPL) and very powerful. there are many plugins which can be
very useful. has support for Ruby syntax highlighting

markus

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Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

xemacs has tabs for opened files, plus all the usual emacs glory :slight_smile:

Guillaume.

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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:19, Dominik Werder wrote:

thanks for your help!
Dominik

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Dominik Werder dwerder@gmx.net wrote in message news:oprrkxtyf1jh6mnk@mail.gmx.net…

Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

thanks for your help!
Dominik

nedit is something like TextPad, but I recommend Eclipse with the Ruby plugins

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Tried WINE?
That looks interesting! I like the screenshot with the starcraft session
running on linux :))

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If you’re running KDE, try Kate. Good Ruby syntax coloring support.

The sreenshots look very good :slight_smile: I think thats what I’m searching for !

thanks!
Dominik

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Guillaume Marcais wrote:

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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:19, Dominik Werder wrote:

Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

xemacs has tabs for opened files, plus all the usual emacs glory :slight_smile:

gnu emacs has a speedbar (a side bar) which can show a list of open
files (or other neat things like a list of functions - in some modes).

I wasn’t trying to fuel the gnu emacs vs xemacs fire, and I’m sure
xemacs supports the speedbar too :slight_smile:

/Anders

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Guillaume Marcais wrote:

Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

xemacs has tabs for opened files, plus all the usual emacs glory :slight_smile:

gnu emacs has a speedbar (a side bar) which can show a list of open
files (or other neat things like a list of functions - in some modes).

I wasn’t trying to fuel the gnu emacs vs xemacs fire, and I’m sure
xemacs supports the speedbar too :slight_smile:

I didn’t either, and I actually use emacs for my daily business. I
didn’t know about the speedbar of emacs. How do you get it?

Guillaume.

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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:19, Anders Borch wrote:

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:19, Dominik Werder wrote:

/Anders

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Guillaume Marcais wrote:

Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

xemacs has tabs for opened files, plus all the usual emacs glory :slight_smile:

gnu emacs has a speedbar (a side bar) which can show a list of open
files (or other neat things like a list of functions - in some modes).

I wasn’t trying to fuel the gnu emacs vs xemacs fire, and I’m sure
xemacs supports the speedbar too :slight_smile:

I didn’t either, and I actually use emacs for my daily business. I
didn’t know about the speedbar of emacs. How do you get it?

Guillaume.

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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:19, Anders Borch wrote:

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:19, Dominik Werder wrote:

/Anders

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Guillaume Marcais wrote:

Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

xemacs has tabs for opened files, plus all the usual emacs glory :slight_smile:

gnu emacs has a speedbar (a side bar) which can show a list of open
files (or other neat things like a list of functions - in some modes).

I wasn’t trying to fuel the gnu emacs vs xemacs fire, and I’m sure
xemacs supports the speedbar too :slight_smile:

I didn’t either, and I actually use emacs for my daily business. I
didn’t know about the speedbar of emacs. How do you get it?

Guillaume.

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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:19, Anders Borch wrote:

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:19, Dominik Werder wrote:

/Anders

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Guillaume Marcais wrote:

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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:19, Anders Borch wrote:

Guillaume Marcais wrote:

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:19, Dominik Werder wrote:

Hello,

I’m developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
editor I’ve ever seen :slight_smile:
But now I’ll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to know
if there is something like textpad for linux.
I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
and then you can continue editing at the position where you’ve stopped.
I’m sure thats also possible on linux but I don’t know how…

xemacs has tabs for opened files, plus all the usual emacs glory :slight_smile:

gnu emacs has a speedbar (a side bar) which can show a list of open
files (or other neat things like a list of functions - in some modes).

I wasn’t trying to fuel the gnu emacs vs xemacs fire, and I’m sure
xemacs supports the speedbar too :slight_smile:

I didn’t either, and I actually use emacs for my daily business. I
didn’t know about the speedbar of emacs. How do you get it?

Guillaume.

it’s quite easy (of cause :wink: )

M-x speedbar

I used it alot with c-mode (back when I still coded in C) for which it
will enumerate all functions which you can click to go to, very ide-like
and neat :slight_smile:

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