I've been using Gusek as you described in the last 2 years, it's my 'swiss knife' also. Sounds good see more people using it as is. =)I'm not a Mac OS user, then will be necessary some people to help to develop / debug possible ports. Chose an editor because it's compatible
with Mac OS will be great, if someone can join and develop - today even Scite has Linux port and Gusek no.
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Arch Linux users can install the latest stable TextAdept version via AUR.
Ubuntu users can install TextAdept using using the main WebUpd8 PPA:
For how to use TextAdept, see the manual and its wiki as well as the doc/ folder available in the TextAdept archive (available under /opt/textadept/doc for Ubuntu users who are using our PPA).
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Komodo looks good, also, but i'm not sure how complicated can be use it. Geany and TextAdept are based on scintilla, so can be less complex to port. How much easier one than other? I don't know, need more research.TextAdept appear to be more flexible, but less sophisticated (as you say) and less popular than Geany. Compared to Scite, both are quite slow under windows, but really faster under Linux. In my view, on both cases, Gusek Windows users will be prejudiced by editor migration (not portable, needs GTK to run, more slow, bigger sizes, maybe require additional configuration like system enviroment...), so we need to ask: who wants an GLPK IDE? What OS they are using?We can test these (and others) editors to get more solid impressions. Someone can share their expertise with them, also, to help us decide.TextAdept is a fast, minimalistic text editor that can be extended through Lua. The application is free, open source and runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
TextAdept features unlimited split views, support for over 80 programming languages, powerful snippets and key commands, code autocompletition and API lookup and is entirely keyboard driven.
Since our last TextAdept article, the application has improved a lot, getting many new features and other changes, including:
- menu mnemonics for indentation size;
- support for indicator and hotspot events;
- added native folding for more than 60% of existing lexers. The rest still use folding by indentation by default;
- added language-specific context menu support;
- new dark and light themes and on-the-fly theme switching;
- autocomplete supports multiple selections;
- more!
textadept-ncurses |
There's also a ncurses version now, so you can run TextAdept in the terminal. The ncurses-based TextAdept is very user-friendly and easy to use - it follows the GNOME HID (Human Interface Design) key-bindings standard for many actions so you can use: Ctrl + s to save the file, Ctrl + o to open a file, Ctrl + q to quit and so on.
TextAdept buffers |
TextAdept doesn't uses tabs like most text editors and instead it uses the buffer browser - press Ctrl + b to open the buffers (files) switching dialog or use Ctrl + Tab to switch to the next buffer or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to switch to the previous one. Alternatively, you can also bring up the recent files dialog using Ctrl + Alt + o. And there is yet another way to quickly open files: snapopen, which behaves like the buffer browser, but displays a list of files to open which includes files in subdirectories - you can snapopen the current directory files using Ctrl + Alt + Shift + o.
You can find the list of key bindings for both the GTK and terminal version HERE.
You can find the list of key bindings for both the GTK and terminal version HERE.
For extra TextAdept language modules, including LaTeX, Python, Markdown, CoffeeScript and so on, see the TextAdept wiki.
Download TextAdept
Download TextAdept - there are binaries available for Linux (as tar.gz, so there are no deb or rpm files but you can simply extract the archive and run it), Windows and Mac OS X as well as source files.
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Arch Linux users can install the latest stable TextAdept version via AUR.
Ubuntu users can install TextAdept using using the main WebUpd8 PPA:
TextAdept should then show up in the menu / Dash. To use the ncurses-based version, type 'textadept-curses' in a terminal.
If you want to make textadept-ncurses the default command line editor in Ubuntu, also install the following package:
For how to use TextAdept, see the manual and its wiki as well as the doc/ folder available in the TextAdept archive (available under /opt/textadept/doc for Ubuntu users who are using our PPA).