Wally wrote:
> Would any of these editors have some sort of macro system, perchance? 

Nedit is the one editor I know of that has a macro system, and is my
favorite editor in Linux for that and some other reasons (soft wrap
(called continuous wrap), regular expression search and replace, some
other things I don't recall right now).  I'm trying to remember if I've
actually recorded a macro -- I guess not, but here are some pages that
might help (they are pretty rough -- the second reflects some things I
did, the first is a copy of a post from the nedit mailing list):

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/NeditMacros
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/NeditRegularExpressions

Like I said, nedit is my favorite editor on Linux, but it has its share
of quirks.  First of all, its appearance is based on lesstif | Motif,
and it looks a little clunkier than I'd like.  There is help, and more
up to date help on the Nedit website, but, if you are a Windows refugee
like me, you may find it (like a lot of Linux documentation) uses
terminology and phrasing that doesn't immeditately make sense to you.

I'd be
> particularly interested in something that will let me painlessly record
> quick'n'dirty keystroke macros. 

There is a "Learn Keystrokes" selection under "Macro".

> How about some drop-down text mode menus

Included.

 and
> way of making the colours look nice?

Ahh, that's what I forgot to mention -- there is syntax highlighting in
color, so I presume there are ways of adjusting the colors.  Some things
have to be done by doing something with the "X resources" (IIRC) -- I've
never tried this. 

Randy Kramer

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