Text editor for Linux

Which ones have the features I need?

[MatthewHSE]

I'm trying to work more of my hours on Linux in the hopes of eventually ditching Windows altogether. Obviously, a good text editor is a necessity for me. I know of several free or open-source text editors for Linux, but none of them so far have the features I need. Here's a list:

• Customizable syntax highlighting
  
• Live, syntax-aware spellchecking
  
• Built-in FTP capabilities so files can be edited quickly, without a ton of manual uploads/downloads.
  
• Custom clip book
  
• Regular-expression and "normal" find and replace
  
• Ability to store favorite find/replaces for frequent use
  
• Tabbed interface to have many files open at once, preferably with the capability of handling 100+ files all at one time.
  
• Excellent large file support - stably open and edit files in excess of 50 - 100 MB.
  
• Block indent
  
• Customizable file types with associated sytax highlighting schemes
  
• Other options such as tabs-to-spaces, configurable tab size, auto-indent, highlight active line, etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Matthew

[JollyK]

Wow. Can you tell me what kind of text editor has all those features to begin with? Usually, I think of text editors as being fairly stripped down...

[MatthewHSE]

EditPadPro has all those and more. It's an incredible time-saver to use.

It's available in Linux, but I'd prefer to get a free editor if possible.

[lammert]

Can you tell me what kind of text editor has all those features to begin with?

Some editors come really close, for example MultiEdit, UltraEdit and EditPlus. Problem is that these are only available for Windows.

You could give SlickEdit a try although it doesn't have all the features you mention.

[JollyK]

Oh, thanks for the notes. I generally use vi, myself, so I'm hopelessly out of date with editors. :-)

Honestly, though, if Editpad has what you want, and has a Linux version, why not just buy it? There may be a free version, but really, most of the text editors I've seen for Linux aren't really like that. They're stripped-down/techno geeky plain like vi or emacs, or they're Word-clone kinds of things like OpenOffice or Kwrite(?).

Sorry. I vote for "buy the one that has the stuff you want." :-)

JK

[2by4]

bluefish is pretty good, not as good as editplus though. All the linux text editors seem to be missing some extremlely basic features, for example bluefish makes you click twice to open a folder in their folder navigation window, which otherwise is very good. Editplus works fine in wine.

But if you already have an editpadpro license, just try installing it with wine and see if it works, you'll never know until you try.

[StupidScript]

While I primarily use the free and less-functional EditPad (use Pro on my winbox), I occasionally enjoy using Winefish [developer.berlios.de], a LaTeX editor based on Bluefish.