From: beta_julia@... (Julia Becker)
Date: 2002-04-04T17:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: TextPad replacement for Linux?

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in message news:<3CAB5B0B.8155BE5E@path.berkeley.edu>...
> If you're looking for a GUI editor, there's Nedit (www.nedit.org). It's
> got the best feel of any mouse-based editor I've ever used. I've used it
> on linux and solaris, but it supposedly runs on anything with an X
> server.

Yes, it does. Windows, OS/2, Mac OS X, ...

> I've been using nedit with ruby for the last year and a half, and have
> made it comfortable with syntax highlighting and a few macros (search in
> RAA for nedit).
> 
> It's got a built in macro language that's kind of like awk. I wish
> they'd use ruby, which would potentially allow embedding an irb shell,
> ruby debugger, etc.

What do you mean with `embedding a debugger'? Nedit is not Emacs with
built-in everything, Nedit is a Unix application. The built-in macro
language is dedicated to text editing (since Nedit is a text editor -
not a debugger or whatever), i.e. searching strings (regular
expressions), string manipulations,...

But Nedit is also prepared to interact with external programs like
debuggers, compilers or other programming languages (Perl, Tcl/Tk,
Python, shell scripts, or whatever you like - ruby?)

This is done with the built-in macro function shell_command() in the
one direction, and with nc (Nedit client) in the other.

Cheers,
jul