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Ask HN: Graphical OSS code editor for Linux?

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I have tried to find a good general purpose open-source code editor for Linux, but am having difficulties finding one. Vim and Emacs are out. What graphical editors are there that you would give your vote for?

Features that I seek are:

  * Syntax highlighting, Auto-indent, In-/deindent with tab, Tabs to spaces
  * Code block visualization (and folding), Variable highlighting
  * Changing of eol(crlf/lf/..) and encoding
  * (Column mode editing), (Multiple views)
  * Font selection

Vim does all of these. And it comes with a GUI, gvim, although the job of a text editor is so non-GUI that it seems ridiculous to describe a text editor for source code as a "graphical editor". Before you dismiss Vim, have a look at Cream http://cream.sourceforge.net/ which is just Vim with a better default config. Also look at Vim as Your IDE http://haridas.in/vim-as-your-ide.html

Most people who want a GUI end up with Eclipse or IntelliJ or Netbeans

He specifically says no Vim or Emacs. So what was the point of your post?

Some random ideas:

   http://kate-editor.org/
   http://www.jedit.org/
   https://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
   http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
   http://www.kdevelop.org/

Also eclipse and netbeans if you add some plugins?

    http://geany.org/

Could you tell us the reason you're not considering neither Vim nor Emacs? Genuinely curious.

* komodo edit * geany * jedit * kate

Code::Blocks

Eclipse.

geany

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