Okay, just trying to find an editor that has some certain functions.

First, command line, I use Nano. No Vi/Emacs wars please!

I'm looking for a gui text editor. I'd like it to have tabs and to re-bring up the docs in the tabs each time its' opened. (In Windows I use Notetab and it does that and I love it!) Second, I run Slack as my user name.. but sometimes I need to edit a config file as root. I can su in a terminal and run nano, but I'd like a gui editor that I can just say.. for this file, save it as 'this user'.

Anything like this you know about? Thanks!

Barbara

well, there are some choices:

1) if you have gnome installed, try gedit. it has all features that you want and you can also run it from the terminal.

2) kate is very similar, except it remains a running KDE install.

Gedit probably would be your best bet. If you have swaret installed, getting gedit up and running is only a line away

I use gedit sometimes. It's nice and tabbed. For root you can do this from a term to use any gui apps: 'su -c "appname --options"' It will ask you for the root password and you just enter it and hit enter. If correctly entered you will have that app open with root privilages. This should work with any WM/DM you try. This other way may not work with everything. In gnome you can click Applications | System Tools | New Login in Nested Window. Log in as root and you have the whole desktop as root for the nested window. I su -c all the time, only once in a nested window and that was just "What does this do?" kind of thing.

I have used gedit, but now Kate for "light" or GUI editing like pasting stuff off the Web. Sometimes gedit would hang or do something annoying. Seems I had a problem pasting long texts into email compositions. So now Kate for casual editing. I use vim for "serious" editing.

How do you get Kate to open in tabs? I've tried, but just either have 50 recent files in memory with one showing in a window; or multiple windows. How do you change the 50 to maybe 20? Loads slowly at 50.

As for the "Save as such and such user" bit - I don't know
of any editor that will allow this. You'll have to use one of
the various methods of invoking a program as root in an
X environment.

One would be to open a shell and
ssh -X root@localhost "kate <your config file"


Cheers,
Tink

I use an editor called Katoob which is very similar to Gedit but miles quicker to load up and much smaller. Spell check, tabs. syntax highlighting, dictionary, line numbers, word wrap, left to right or right to left, many encodings, etc etc. It is Arabic but works fine in English for me.

Okay, I did install gedit. I do like it, but it doesn't do one thing.

What I want to do is open say.. 6 files. Close gedit. Tomorrow, reopen gedit and those six files are there, open in their tabs. Is there anyway to make gedit do that? I can't find a preference for that.

Or any other editor that does that?

Thanks

Barbara

I don't know of any editor that does that. gedit will open that many files at one time though. An odd fix for it would be to create sym links of the files on the desktop or make a bash script to open each file up but this wouldn't be a convenient as what you speak of.

I used to use Moleskine http://www.micampe.it/moleskine.html before I discovered Katoob and I remember you could save multi-file projects and reopen all the files in a project together. I cannot try it now as it does not work with Pygtk2 but if that is OK for you I guess you could save your open files as a project then open that project the next day.

I seem also to remember another editor with that facility and will try to think of its name for you.

In kate you can click on "Settings > Configure Kate > Application > General" and check "Restore files at startup" and it will then restore all tabs and their scroll positions on startup.

I don't know of any way to save files as different users, but I doubt a plug-in to do this would be very hard to write.

CUTE http://cute.sourceforge.net/features.html does projects and also saves sessions with open files, working directory and cursor position. It is a programming editor so a bit complex but would seem to do what you want. Nedit might also be worth a look.

There's this thing called SciTE which will do it. I don't much like it but it does restore tab-sessions. Or, as oldyas says, apparently kate will.

-- Or CUTE, it seems. I left the window to this thread up awhile.

File > Save/Load Session.

It also has a tabbed interface and has syntax highlighting for some several dozen languages. It's my absolute favorite editor. I do also use Nano on the console btw.

Homepage: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html (Be sure to read the documentation)