Nedit

Programming in languages like Perl on Linux everyday means that the choice of text editor is very important to me. I use vi a fair amount, especially for quick alterations to code, but it's not exactly intuitive or user friendly. So as soon as I'm working on a bigger project I switch to Nedit a friendly GUI editor that runs under X windows and has some nice features for those of us who code. For anyone familiar with Textpad on Windows machines nedit will probably seem familiar, it offers a similar level of features, though their layout is different. For me the most important feature of Nedit is the range of options I can use to control the appearance of ...  Read the complete review

The choice of a text editor is an issue which has caused many a flame war on Usenet. As a good text editor is essential for anyone who does any significant amount of software development (or anything else involving pure ASCII text files), people get very attached to the likes of 'vi' or 'emacs' when they find that it suits their way of working. So, without wanting to provoke yet another war, I'd like to suggest that anyone who hasn't already seen it look at Nedit (freely available from www.nedit.org as both source code and binaries for a wide range of different platforms). It has plenty of modern features (syntax colouring, for example ...  Read the complete review