As a fairly new user to Linux, I'd like to ask the gurus if there's a text editor for Linux that resembles that of Textpad for windows?
(if u ever use textpad, u'll know how useful and versitile it is with all the code coloring, indentation, file handling, etc.)

never mind... sorry

If you've got KDE, try kate. Nedit is a close runner up.

If you do any coding beyond basic html work, it would be very much in your best interest to learn to use emacs or vi. I prefer emacs, but some say I'm a bit of a masochist, particularly considering that I only use it for basic html work. Emacs is more powerful than any editor writen for any platform ever, period. It's practicaly an operating system unto itself.

I suggest you use kate, or somthing like it, for immediate tasks while spending the next few months figuring out emacs (or vi). Either one will prove usefull to you in ways that you've never imagined.

I had used Beaver once .. I really liked it and I think u r really going to like it .. its really good , i m not sure this link is active or not , it should be .. try this out , do tell me if this works .. http://freshmeat.net/projects/beaver/
Thanks again .. All The Best
Shaheen

Since I dont have KDE, I'm currently using Gedit from GNOME, which is decent enuf, but still not as good as textpad UI and functionality wise.
Havn't tried beaver, will look into it once I finish my exams.
btw, that link works =)
Thanks for the tips

I've got TextPad running perfectly through wine. I don't know if the install would work with wine, because I run it directly from a windows partition with textpad installed. Give textpad and wine a try too

running programs from windows partition requires NTFS mounting which I havn't done so.
nevertheless, I found a solution:
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl

bluefish looks just the sort of editor I'm looking for, check it out.
perhaps u won't need wine either =)

Bluefish heim Looks pretty good. I've not seen that one yet. Thanks zdAntz for sharing the link

hi,

if it is just text editing what you want to do, try vi or its clones vim and elvis. it´s pretty difficult to handle for the first two times you try to use it. but when you´ve checked it out and you learned how to use it, you will love it, i swear!

ok, there is the danger to get rather mad before one may only think of using it again, but ...

if you want to use your _textpad_ to write letters, bills, or papers with it, try the latex-based lyx or its brother klyx. they are very easy to handle as you won´t know how the prog is working and you are forced to trust it. don´t think, just type ... lyx is doing the rest for you.

for both vim and lyx i recommend you to read a manual before. i didn´t but checked it out without doing so--and finally wanted to bang my had against the screen as i didn´t understand what the **** lyx was doing.

curious? then grab lyx and try to proceed a line break ...





ps the brave must win--and the brave is red!

yeh, most of linuxsers recommend vi or emacs
i've been riding linux for a couple of months now and i know the drills about vi or emacs or latex
reason y i'm looking for textpad clones is for the a better, simpler, and more visually appealing programming, scripting, and web dev environment
nonetheless, i've found a pretty good substitution: bluefish
as Megaman X already gave thumbs up to the program
but thanks to all, i appreciate ur guidence and help!

Yes, I agree. I use gvim (the graphical frontend for vim), it's amazing what you can do with it. And yes, it has nice colouring, too, for thousands of different file formats. It takes some time to get used to it, but once you know the basics, you can get quite a bit out of it. Give it a try There are plenty of good manuals available, by the way, there's also one built into vim (vim-tutor or so), and the help-function is quite impressive as well.

OMG! What a relief to try out Beaver!
For quick copy/paste operations and while talking in the phone I usually use gedit.
(I don't wan't to be bothered with what mode I'm in in vim for the moment, just want an editor that's quick to start up with a hot-key.)

But since an upgrade a few months ago gedit started to live it's own life with the swedish characters å,ä,ö, and though I looked alright in gedit, it'd turn out garbage in vim or any other text-editor...
Gedit wouldn't display files or directories containing these characters in the 'open file' dialogs either.
Very annoying since I hade to use drag-n-drop to open these files.
That worked but gedit was a bit annoyed that it contained 'invalid unicode'...
Anyway, this now works like a charm in Beaver, plus I now have some other features which weren't available in gedit.

There's only one thing that I'm missing from gedit, and that's the ability to open an new document in an existing Beaver-session, when the document is called from outside the program...
This was possible in gedit with the parameter --new-document.
Does anybody know if this is possible in Beaver?
I'm using version 0.2.5 and I know there's version 0.3.1 available as source, but there seem to be some problem to download that right now...

There is one great thing missing in BlueFish though. Macros... without it fast dirty editing is simply not possible. That is why wine is compiling while I am writing.

Using VI is like refinishing hardwood floors in an apartment that you're renting.

Any text editor that has a learning curve for open, page down, cut, paste, delete line, save, or quit is a waste of mental bandwidth.

That VI still exists is not any testament to progress and anybody who recommends it to a newbie should be completely ashamed.

lol, just because vi requires some extra commands it does not mean its archaic or non-newbie friendly. If somebody uses Linux and wants to find a 100% notepad replacement and run all programs under wine, there's no point of using Linux. A simple tutorial about vi should make it:

http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html

The only real ability required is the ability or reading the tutorials. Nobody with an ordinary text editor is able to beat an experienced vim user. Deleting lines (dd) replacing characters (r) make it really efficiently compared to other texts. The huge amount of plugins for practically all programming languages around makes it the ultimate editor . But it's for peoples who really want to learn something new.. otherwise the hole concept of using Linux is pointless. Also, any Linux certification requires vi(m) knowledge