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- shiznatix
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Linux editplus
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.
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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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.
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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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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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?
Maybe check what extensions are enabled for gedit?
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)?
Is there any freeware programs that have syntax checking (not highlighting)?
Probably best to put this in it's own threadjayshields 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)?
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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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:
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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