From: Markus Jais <mjais@...>
Date: 2003-06-30T22:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Editor like Textpad on Linux?

Dominik Werder wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm developing at the moment on a windows machine with textpad, the best
> editor I've ever seen :)
> But now I'll switch on a linux desktop for a project and would like to
> know if there is something like textpad for linux.
> I know that vi and emacs are very often used, but I miss the really cool
> sidebar where textpad lists all open files. You just (single-)click on it
> and then you can continue editing at the position where you've stopped.
> I'm sure thats also possible on linux but I don't know how...
> 
> thanks for your help!
> Dominik


what I like is jedit (http://www.jedit.org)

written in Java, so not the fastest, but fast enough. only startup is
slow.

jedit is free (GPL) and very powerful. there are many plugins which can be
very useful. has support for Ruby syntax highlighting

markus