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miggy

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From: MT

Registered: 2007-11-05

Posts: 67

gui editor with highlighting

Does anyone want to recommend a nice, small, gui editor that will do proper highlighting/markup (whatever you call it) for an assortment of file types (ie tex, fortran, c, etc...).  Something to colorize my 'for's, 'while's, and 'vspace's.  I don't like gvim for this purpose...something simpler like leafpad but with automatic coloring.

Thanks!

bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 289

Re: gui editor with highlighting

beaver

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 1,233

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Re: gui editor with highlighting

gedit does this, but i dont know if that's what you are looking for.

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synorgy

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From: $HOME

Registered: 2005-07-11

Posts: 272

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Re: gui editor with highlighting

geany and medit are probably what you're looking for.

geany is a minimal ide while medit is just a text editor (almost exactly like gedit actually) that has syntax highlighting

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Leigh

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From: USA

Registered: 2004-06-25

Posts: 533

Re: gui editor with highlighting

For gui I like "tea" in community

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: gui editor with highlighting

kwrite, scite.

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gothmog.todi

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From: Austria

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 120

Re: gui editor with highlighting

textflow (it's in aur)

miggy

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From: MT

Registered: 2007-11-05

Posts: 67

Re: gui editor with highlighting

thanks for the suggestions.  I will try them out

finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 1,899

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Re: gui editor with highlighting

Don't forget Scribes.

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big_gie

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Registered: 2005-01-19

Posts: 637

Re: gui editor with highlighting

I use mainly kwrite for simple files, and kate (which is almost the same thing) for more complex "projects" because it has some tabs.

schivmeister

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: gui editor with highlighting

KWrite and Kate. Kate is more advanced, yes. I stick with KWrite, anything bigger I go to Eclipse.

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: gui editor with highlighting

I'm gonna throw Pallavi out there because the developer loves to have it tested. :-)

http://pallavi.sf.net/

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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: gui editor with highlighting

I have no input if gvim is excluded 8)

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miggy

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From: MT

Registered: 2007-11-05

Posts: 67

Re: gui editor with highlighting

vi is all I use on cli but when I want to point and click and scroll and edit, I don't want to care if I am in insert, command, or command line mode.  I used to use kwrite all the time (just a month ago any program I used began with a k) and agree that it is top-notch.  However, I think I like medit for an all purpose editor, now; it even recognized scilab files which made me happy.  I haven't tried beaver yet but it looks like it could be promising.