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iGoD ReLeNtLeS
14-12-10, 11:59
Well i've recently swapped over to Ubuntu to use as my main OS and looking to get some tools together to make it as productive.

Looking for something like Notepad++ that has syntax hi-lighting for PHP, HTML and CSS. Or just general tolls that are useful

I currently have Notepad++ running under wine, but its not proving itself very good without the full .dll support it needs to run.

Cheers, iGoD
Jackster
14-12-10, 12:17
Notepad++ has a linux package someware....

Edit, It don't have one but i shore you could edit the source code and make one?
andyn
14-12-10, 12:24
Notepad++ has a linux package someware....

Edit, It don't have one but i shore you could edit the source code and make one?

Methinks you are somewhat underestimating the difficulty there :P.

Edit: To OP, the Gedit editor which comes as default can actually do almost everything which Notepad++ can do. You can get a lot of plugins for it, and it can have tabs, macros, search/replace for folders, syntax highlighting, etc etc etc.

If you really want to make the most of linux you could learn to use a 'real' unix editor, i.e. vi (or it's evil brother Emacs). But those have a pretty steep learning curve and can be a bit of a shock if you're not something of a command-line ninja.
Spaceboy
14-12-10, 12:29
Latest version of vi / vim i'm sure does that?
DoubleTop
14-12-10, 12:30
Joe does syntax colouring and fancy stuff, a nightmare of shortcut keys to remember though !

DT.
andyn
14-12-10, 12:31
Latest version of vi / vim i'm sure does that?

Yeah VI/VIM has had syntax highlighting for many years. But if he's just moving into linux he might find the concept of a 'command based' editor a bit intimidating. Personally I'm old enough to have had to use 'ed', the line editor, so it wasn't such a shock :P.
Spaceboy
14-12-10, 12:34
Yeah, it's not the easiest to learn but lots of cheat sheets available :-)

I still remember edlin in Dos :D
scottmac
14-12-10, 15:43
Yeah VI/VIM has had syntax highlighting for many years. But if he's just moving into linux he might find the concept of a 'command based' editor a bit intimidating. Personally I'm old enough to have had to use 'ed', the line editor, so it wasn't such a shock :P.

I've just got the hang of VI and it does take a while to get used to, glad I kept with it but 10 mins in I felt like smashing the screen with something
Lorem-Ipsum
14-12-10, 15:46
Gedit is probably the closest you will get to notepad++ and has syntax highlighting if you enable it.

I personally like the bluefish editor.

You can get bluefish by clicking HERE (apt://bluefish) (I hope I've learned apturl right)
iGoD ReLeNtLeS
14-12-10, 21:45
Gedit is probably the closest you will get to notepad++ and has syntax highlighting if you enable it.

I personally like the bluefish editor.

You can get bluefish by clicking HERE (apt://bluefish) (I hope I've learned apturl right)

yeh i was using the bluefish earlier, also have gPHPEdit and gave that a run, will give the others a quick whiz but i think blue fish seems to be the way forward.

Have used VI and nano before in the terminal but much prefer it to have some sort of GUI :thumb:
Lorem-Ipsum
14-12-10, 23:15
vim is VI Improved and has a lot of fixes and extras.

I tend to use vim a lot for simple programs but for larger ones a GUI can be useful.