Brett Parker wrote:
I believe he means "console" as apposed to a gtk window...
Yup!
To be clear, what I am after is a decent GUI editor. I already have my console needs satisfied by joe (which I find a lot easier than vi[m]).
there's always jedit - which is one of the better graphical editors I've used... or Kate (yes, it's KDE, but it's actually not bad), or, IIRC, scite isn't too bad.
Kate I quite like, but because I run Gnome it tends to be slow to load because of the KDE libs overhead. Scite I seem to recall playing with but not for long, so I guess I wasn't a fan although I have no idea why now!
I quite like Bluefish (www.bluefish.nl) but the packaged version in the repos is old (1.07) and missing a lot of the features that would make it a good bet. However I have just discovered Ubuntu packages on the website of the unstable version (1.3.7). It seems odd that they have gone from 1.0.x (stable) to 1.3.x (unstable) without a stable release in the meantime, but that seems to be the situation.
(Now, if we can keep the thread out of the realms of windows software... especially for text editors... ;)
Absolutely!