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Ok so I am finishing up my final linux conversion stuff but...

I don't like VIM because it's strange to me and it does not seam to save my settings plus is a little quirky. I tried eclipse with the PHP extension but eclipse is far too slow. I love EditPlus so much but I don't know any Linux editors that are that light but have that many features. Basically does anyone know of a Editplus equivalent for Linux? I searched the 'what editor do you use' stuff but I really don't want to start installing a thousand things trying to find the right one.
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hm... maybe Kate? As a happy vim user I'm not the one you would ask about GUI stuff, but nevertheless...
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

I used gedit for a while, not saying its a match for editplus but its one of the simplest editors I know of supporting PHP syntax highlighting on Linux. This is a Gnome app, so not sure what the KDE alternate is like...

The other is gPHPEdit, another Gnome2 app, for PHP/HTML/CSS. (This is often shortened to gedit in error).

I'm sure there are a few KDE apps others may have used.
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well i am running Gnome so no problems there. I am looking at kate right now and it seams to be quite good but I am not sure if it really gives me everything that I want yet. I will take a look at some of those others tonight when I get a chance.
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gedit is the default Gnome editor - its almost a certainty you already have it and have probably used it on text files ;). It's little more than a notepad similar app with highlighting. No autocomplete/etc.
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autocomplete is the last thing I want :) . I just want somthing that will highlight my stuff and give me control over tabs (i use 4 spaces instead of a tab, I have my reasons...). Gedit does not seam to allow that and Kate would be perfect if when I hit enter it auto-indented the line to where it was on the previous line....sigh its so hard to find somthing that is 'perfect' for me.
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

gedit typically auto increments using tabs - but it has an option for setting tab-with-spaces instead - you can even set the number of spaces to use. It's also tabbed - though Gnome's tabbing is not the best always. Should be in preferences somewhere (not in front of my own PC right now unfortunately).

Maybe check what extensions are enabled for gedit?
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You probably want either Kate or Quanta (assuming you are using KDE)
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I use quanta on my Development Notebook, and aside from being a little clunky and slow (it's built with java), it works beautifully.. I have yet to find my perfect dev tool for linux as i have on windows (Context), but it is good enough for me
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I use Xemacs exclusively. I use it by exporting my display from the server, so I'm not sure how/where to change the tab sizes/characters - but it seems to have pretty standard highlighting and spacing.
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Sorry to stray the thread slightly, but I use EditPlus on Windows too, and I've been looking for the equivilent for a while now but with syntax checking, so i dont have to run the script to find out i missed a curly bracket or a function bracket. Also, doing stuff with undefined variables would be nice, but that's getting more complex than I need.

Is there any freeware programs that have syntax checking (not highlighting)?
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Post by pickle »

jayshields wrote:Sorry to stray the thread slightly, but I use EditPlus on Windows too, and I've been looking for the equivilent for a while now but with syntax checking, so i dont have to run the script to find out i missed a curly bracket or a function bracket. Also, doing stuff with undefined variables would be nice, but that's getting more complex than I need.

Is there any freeware programs that have syntax checking (not highlighting)?
Probably best to put this in it's own thread ;)
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Quanta and the Bluefish for me!
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

It's a bit clunky but the PHP plugin for Eclipse has syntax checking. Eclipse is java based so don't expect it to be as responsive as something in C.
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If you don't want something command line based I wouldn't go for emacs/vi (even the X-based version are unusual).

If you had KDE I would have said Kate because I think it pees all over *any* other editor I've tried.

gedit you'll have but it's a left to be desired IMO. It's highlighting is incredibly poor for one thing.

Anjuta's quite nice and Bluefish too.

Since you're running Ubuntu you could try loads out pretty quickly. Look what you can install from apt-get:

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