Keith Watson wrote:
A colleague at work put me on to Notepad++ running under Wine as an alternative to GEdit.
I've used Notepad++ on Windows when I've needed to (actually tend to use PSPad more, couldn't tell you now why I made that decision). I do have a perpetual UE licence on Windows but it's convenient to have access to an editor I can install on other machines as required. There is no doubt (to me) that UE is better than any of the freeware Windows editors I've found, and sadly even the freeware Windows editors seem better than the Linux offerings I've found, which has always surprised me: the proportion of Linux users who write code must be quite high by comparison with other operating systems.
Obviously none of the above come close to Vi, however :-)
I've used it a lot for my Ubuntu 9.04 boxes, however, like yourself, I'm in the middle of upgrading to 9.10 so haven't tried it with the latest release yet.
Well I'm now at 9.10 (painless upgrade) so I've installed UE (Ubuntu 9.10 .deb package, 32/64 bit options available) - it opened quickly and "feels" like a native Linux app (which it is claimed to be, so that should be no surprise). I have some code to do today so I'll use it an see how I get on.
I would very much welcome suggestions as to decent FOSS alternatives however. I'm sorry, but Vi/Emacs might suit some people but I'm not one of them (I probably was once upon a time). (PS: If I want a text-mode editor I tend to use joe - Wordstar compatible key bindings anyone?)