hi there. i recently discovered a win-based text editor Programmer's Notepad which i've been using for certain "touch-up" jobs in which i need to modify a lot of HTML elements.

i found it very easy to create my own Custom code-snippets, so i seek a Linux FC5 app which might perform similarly.

my snippets are saved, and reusable via an XML file. note, i created these from scratch, realizing that the "horizontal bar" indicates the "cursor position", or "insertion point". if i highlight a line, and 'double-click' my snippet (see below) named "span-class" for example, the result has span elements around the line of text.
the code looks like this:i figured it out just by looking at the "default" snippets. it was simple.

how might i get something like that going in Kate? or gphpedit? or any of the hundreds of other Text Editors-- does anyone use something which might be so "easy to customize" as the XML shown above?
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thanks!

are there truly no text editors available for Fedora Core 5 which offer a "custom snippets" feature similar to that i described above?

the closest thing i can think of is the bluefish custom menu, but the key characteristic i'm looking for, which i liked in the example so eloquently stated above is the ability to edit, for example... a simple XML file in VIM, or nedit if i wanted to.