A kate like editor...

[deathadder]

I'm a GTK person by choice, however the other day at work I found myself having to use Kate, and I was very impressed with it. I spend a lot of time grepping files during work, because of this I loved the functionality in Kate that allowed me to grep within a file or directory directly from the editor. I haven't seen this in any GTK based apps and was wondering if anyone knew of one that provided said functionality.

Ideally it would also have the built in terminal like Geany / Kate and syntax highlighting for Tcl as well as the usual languages (C/Java/C++/etc)

If anyone know of such an editor please let me know.

T.I.A

[ph34r]

Why not just install kate? Like you, I like it much better than gedit, etc. So on my ubuntu desktop (gnome default) I've just installed the kate package (and the libs, etc. it requires). Works like a champ. Just because you have one DE doesn't mean you can't have supporting libraries and apps from another DE.

[deathadder]

I will just install it on my home machine if there isn't an alternative, but I was looking for something that would fit more naturally into XFCE if possible. :)

[i845_]

medit (http://mooedit.sf.net)?

[psych-major]

I like leafpad, which I believe is included in xfce under the name mousepad.
The line numbering feature is handy.

[deathadder]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look at those later. Does medit allow you to search from within the editor? I had a quick look at the site on Friday from work, went home to find my computer had decided it was a good time to "loose" my hard drives :mad: Anyway, I'll install that this evening. I'll have a closer look at leafpad/mousepad later on.

Thanks for the suggestions guys!

[Darkbolt]

It may be a bit overkill, but you could look into eclipse...I dont think it has tcl highlighting, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was a plugin out there for it

Certainly does support a multitude of search options, including using regular expressions throughout a project

HTH

[deathadder]

Hey,

Thanks for the suggestions guys, medit is very close to what I was looking for, but I couldn't see a way to search through files.

Darkbolt: Eclipse is a little bit overkill, but I'm going to be getting back into Java programming so I'll have a look using that if I can find a Tcl plugin...I do like syntax highlighting when I'm coding :)

Thanks guys