When I use Windows at work (no choice), I use Notepad++ which I think is a great text editor. When I use Linux I use Bluefish, which I also like. One thing that I wish that Bluefish did that Notepad++ does is drop vertical lines down to the next tag that is not indented. This helps me keep my tags straight, I religiously indent and this makes it easier to make sure that all of my tags are closed. This might seem like a simple thing, but I really got used to it in Notepad++ and miss that functionality in Bluefish.

I noticed that Quanta Plus drops dotted lines just like the solid lines that Notepad++ does. Is there any way of setting up Bluefish (or even Screem) to do this?

Thanks,
Todd

Sorry if I'm wrong but isn't Notepad++ based on this:
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEImage.html
Let us know if that's what you are looking for.

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I just installed Scite and that seems to be exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Looks like it might be kinda involved tweaking all of the settings to get them as I like them (font, tag colors, etc) as there only seems to be config files that need to be hand edited and no actual GUI to do the tweaking. But hey, it IS a text editor...

And yes, I am kinda anal about how I like things configured, that's just me. Again, thanks, that was just what I was looking for, although it would be nice to have that same capability in Bluefish or Screem as I very much like both of them also.

Thanks,
Todd

Also check out Geany, another editor based on Scintilla. It fits the bill for me, another ex-Notepad++ user.

Geany seems to be the closest to what I want, thanks for posting that. Do you know if there is a way to customize the colors that it used for html tags?

Thanks,
Todd

You can configure Geany's syntax colour highlighting, and other stuff, through configuration files. See the documentation for details. NB: this doc is true for the current source release, which may differ from your distro's packaged release because some of the configuration stuff changed in recent versions.

I would just like to add to this discussion, that Notepad++ does support ASP file types, whereas Geany and Scintilla don't. That's no surprise, as Notepad++ is Windows, and the others are Linux.

I do, however, have Notepad++ running through Wine without any problems so far. So, if you do like the interface, that may be a consideration for you.

Geany does support ASP. I use Geany to edit ASP from Linux. You just need to tell it to see .asp and .asa as HTML (and maybe add <%@language="vbscript"%> for VBScript instead of JavaScript) and it will do the syntax highlighting thing. Notepad++ is fine under Windows, but not-so-fine under Wine, so I use Geany.

I love in UltraEdit windows, and occasionally use Notepad ++. Umder linx I still use vi and combine tasks needed to do with sed awk cut etc, but i guess I am getting lazy for an Ultraedit style GuI editor. Soggestions?, recommendations?, comments?

if you don't make heavy user of NotePad++ and you can easily manage almost everything using vi, sed etc then there is no point in going for any special editor in linux, but if you still want one then my suggestion would be Quanta, its really good one, give it a try...thank you..

I know that this is an old post, but since I started it I feel the need to bring it back from the dead

I still have not found any Linux text editors that have the same desired functionality that Notepad++ has. This is what I feel that Linux text editors are missing (at least the ones that I've seen):

Tag highlighting:
The type of tag highlighting that I am referring to is when you click on an opening tag, it and the closing tag are highlighted. This is more than simply making tags such as <div> stand out by making the font color blue. I troubleshoot a lot of code and being able to see where an opening tag's close is is quite important to me.

Something less important but still desirable is the way that Notepad++ lays out the 'Incremental Search'. It leaves a text input box at the bottom of the window that allows you to input text whenever you need to. This is nicer than the 'popup' box that most other editors use as that is rather intrusive, hell, it's simply not elegant

I have tried running Notepad++ under Wine in both Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 and it has a bad habit of crashing, which after a while becomes quite irritating. Regardless, I would certainly think that if anything, Linux would have it all over Windows when it came to text editors.

I heard that SciTE and Notepad++ both use the same codebase, but I tried SciTE and it does not have the tag highlighting functionality that Notepad++ has.

Cheers

¿GVim? ;-)

I glanced at Gvim. Does it do the tag highlighting that I am looking for? If you click on the opening tag, both it and the closing tag are highlighted? That is really a key piece of functionality for me.

Thanks

Hello leupi,

if you're refering to html-tags, look at this: http://www.infynity.spodzone.com/vim/HTML/

Markus

I *don't* know whether it has the functionality that you're looking for, but could you try Gedit?
And post back here to tell us what you found, I wanna know.....