From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 10 16:36:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD0F37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:36:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (eischen@localhost) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.3/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5ANaP1j009727; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:36:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:36:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent somewhere. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Try Nedit from the ports collection. It's the best GUI editor I've ever used, for programming anyways. It's not a WYSIWIG HTML editor/word processor, nor is it an IDE, but it is a really good programmer's editor. Fast and lots of features. It has syntax highlighting also, and there are some other contributed syntax highlighting patterns at www.nedit.org (it comes with a bunch by default, including SGM HTML). I've converted everybody at work to using Nedit. Nedit version 5.3 was just released, but I haven't updated the port yet. There's not much functional difference between 5.2.1 and 5.3 anyways, though. -- Dan Eischen On Mon, 10 2002 chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > I have spent a large part of my day trying various gui editors, trying to > find one that will actually work the way > it should. I have been using gnotepad+, but it crashes too much, so I > changed to bluefish, but it also is quite > unstable. Today I installed glimmer, cooledit, peacock and screem. All from > the ports. All I really want is an > editor that will copy/paste/undo/redo, search/replace, syntax highlight for > html/php, keep the prefences from > one session to the next, I don't need wizards and icons and other wizbang > things, just a stable app that I can > leave running all day if necessary, come back to it and it will still be > running waiting patiently for me to do > some more editing. If I remember correctly, kwrite, or kadvanced editor, > was pretty good, but since it can only > be installed as part of kde, not seperately at all, I don't have it. (I > tried to install KDE 2 and KDE3 both from the > ports but they both failed, oh well, I don't care for it anyway). [ Snip ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message