Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 193.254.61.192]
on June 27, 2008 01:20 AM
Too bad many of these editors have some fatal flaw that prevents them from bein used as a lightweight programmer's editor.
Many of them don't have jump to matching bracket or block [un]indent. Kate doesn't have autoindent (or it works only on certain filetypes) and if you trigger the opening of a new file it exhibits a completely brain-dead behaviour (opens a new window with everything from the first window duplicated). They each use all kinds of shortcuts to switch tabs, but never Ctrl-Tab (Gedit doesn't seem to allow tab switching from keyboard at all). Nedit doesn't know Unicode (come on, it's 2008 FFS). And so on and so forth.
The only acceptable lightweight programmer editor I've found is Medit. It has its shortcomings but it's the most usable of the bunch (for a programmer).
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 193.254.61.192] on June 27, 2008 01:20 AMMany of them don't have jump to matching bracket or block [un]indent. Kate doesn't have autoindent (or it works only on certain filetypes) and if you trigger the opening of a new file it exhibits a completely brain-dead behaviour (opens a new window with everything from the first window duplicated). They each use all kinds of shortcuts to switch tabs, but never Ctrl-Tab (Gedit doesn't seem to allow tab switching from keyboard at all). Nedit doesn't know Unicode (come on, it's 2008 FFS). And so on and so forth.
The only acceptable lightweight programmer editor I've found is Medit. It has its shortcomings but it's the most usable of the bunch (for a programmer).
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