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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">OK. I suspect that this may
start a flame war but that is not my intent.<br>
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Over the past while and on Win* I have learned to use Notepad++ with
its out-of-the-box colour syntax highlighting for most source code
formats, e.g. C, C#, Java, PHP, HTML & CSS.<br>
As far as I can tell, this feature on gedit available on Ubuntu/Linux
is a bit weak "out-of-box".<br>
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Moreover, with a new install of Ubunbtu 11.04 I am getting errors
w/gedit (again out-of -the-box).<br>
It appears that gedit is trying to update a history file or file(s) and
that this operation is failing due to permissions.<br>
(n.b. As I am not logged in as 'root' or 'superuser' I have been using:
sudo to launch gedit.)<br>
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And here it goes:<br>
Can the list recommend a good source code editor for Linux/Ubuntu?<br>
with:<br>
- similar to Notepad++ <br>
- colour syntax highlighting for most source code<br>
- colour highlighting for nested parentheses<br>
- colour highlighting for different styles of parentheses<br>
- etc<br>
- and that does not require tweaking of ini or similar files<br>
<br>
I know of: nano vi vim gedit but am not fluent with any of these tools.<br>
Vim is ok but (IMO) remains clunky .<br>
<br>
By mistake, the other day I typed "vi" and, for a minute, thought I was
back in the 1980s.<br>
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Tx: JohnJ</font>
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