[ale] Ultraedit type editor for Linux

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Fri Sep 12 11:33:41 EDT 2003


Has anyone found anything comparable to Visual Slick Edit.  I've
used it in the past and it seems to be the next vest thing to Vim.
It even has a vi mode for people so use to using vi.

http://www.slickedit.com

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:17:46AM -0400, Keith Morris wrote:
> I don't know if this is taboo to everyone else, but I just use Quanta 
> Plus (http://quanta.sourceforge.net).  Does just about everything you 
> have mentioned.  I use it mostly for PHP development and it has worked 
> great for me.  I just had to turn off the autocomplete functionality as 
> it bogged down terribly on scripts with lots of classes and functions.
> 
> I have also used the Gnome-native Anjuta (http://anjuta.sourceforge.net) 
> ...It does a great job as well plus is more suited for C/C++ development.
> 
> Keith Morris
> IQ Television Group
> http://www.iqtv.com
> 
> Nathan Underwood wrote:
> 
> >I've used Linux in a server (web, dns, file / print sharing, some LDAP,
> >etc.) environment for a while, and am really trying to move to Linux for
> >my desktop OS, but I'm running into a few speedbumps.  I won't go into
> >the hardware issues (OpenGL, USB mouse, Umax scanner connected to an
> >Adaptec 2940 [instead of that stupid card that came with it], etc., I
> >think I've just about got those worked out), but I would like to ask for
> >your help in the software dept.  The one thing that I'm really trying to
> >find is something like Ultraedit for Linux (not Wine + Ultraedit, but
> >just a plain old Ultraedit type editor).  I do a lot of Web Development
> >type stuff (mostly PHP), and I love that with Ultraedit I can open from
> >/ save to FTP.  I'm using Bluefish right now, in conjunction with my
> >good ole cli ftp, but it's really getting old, when I can look over at
> >my Win2k box and think about just saving it directly to the remote box
> >via ftp.  Plus, I can edit pretty much anything with UE.  Have any of
> >you found a capable replacement?  My ideal product would have:
> >
> > - Syntax highlighting (PHP, HTML, Javascript, bash, perl, C, C++, etc.)
> > - Save to / Open from FTP
> > - Fast (UE is very fast at opening large files)
> >Pretty simple list (I think), but I'm having trouble finding anything.
> >
> >many thanks!
> >
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