[OT] a text editor that is not mousepad :/

[Ken Moffat]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:40:17 +0100 Mike Massonnet wrote:
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>   
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 02:18:11PM -0500, Lehman Black wrote:
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>>> One of the main reasons why I don't use Mousepad is because it doesn't have
>>> syntax highlighting. Most of my text editing involves either writing bash
>>> scripts or HTML markup.
>>>       
>> How about that one: http://www.triptico.com/software/mp.html.  A new
>> release has just appeared on gnomefiles.
>>     
>
> Looks nice.
>
> or maybe http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
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> ~Randy
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>   

A pretty nice basic programming editor, which includes an IDE, is geany, 
Probably more than you are looking for, I know, but lightweight and 
okay. It is now available in debian testing, as is scite, and mp, which 
is called mped in debian.