PS: Forgot to mention: * Nedit is on the download CDs -- at least it was for 7.2, and I expect it is on since then -- I (accidentally) did not install it by default on my 8.1 installation, and have not looked for it yet. * I'm almost certain mc is midnight commander, because mc is the default name of the midnight commander executable.
Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: > > 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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