Textpad replacement in Linux

Uno Engborg uno at webworks.se
Fri Sep 22 09:51:19 UTC 2006


Uno Engborg wrote:

> I'm looking for something similar to the TextPad 
> (http://www.textpad.com) for windows program that can run on Linux.
> It  should be used for editing css, html with server side includes for 
> apache.
>
> It should handle syntax coloring, for various languages, have clip 
> libraries.
> It should have some kind of workspaces where save the position of open 
> windows.
> It should be able to handle 300 or so open files for editing at the 
> same time
> It should be possible to do search and replace in multiple documents.
> It should be possible to invoke command line tools and get the output 
> from them back into the editor.
> E.g. It should be possible to connect to a JDK for compiling java code 
> and get back error messages
> from the compile into the editor, and to double click on compile 
> errors to jump to the offending line
> in the code.
>
> It should be less heavy than eclipse.
>
> Any suggestions would be very welcome!

Thanks for all  your suggestions!
However, most of them are not even close to filling the requirements.
I'll think I will try to get Textpad to work with wine.

/uno




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