OK, so now I'm starting to get into this whole
using-Linux-for-real-not-just-as-a-toy malarkey, I can see I'm going to
need a bit of help....
First off, I regularly need to edit and manage files across a variety of
SMB shares. In UltraEdit I could, for example:
- File -> Open
- Type \\servername\share\path ENTER
- Browse for files in that directory, and open some of them
- File -> Save As
- Be automatically dropped in the last directory I used to save the files.
With (eg) gedit, I can achieve the first three of those (albeit that the
path I type is smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]) but saving files back to the same
directory afterwards is tortuous. A quick look through the gedit
Preferences confirms that this is Gnome's notepad, not Gnome's
programmers editor.
I tried Scite, but to my surprise it doesn't seem able to open a remote
file at all, so that stopped me there. I'll give Eclipse a go, but given
the Java overhead I'm assuming that'll be relatively slow.
So what do real devs use on Linux? I'm sure I'll get a combination of
Vi/Emacs answers, but I really want something more in the
designed-for-GUI category.
[I've decided against trying too hard to get Windows editors running; I
use an editor too much to rely on a hack, good as that hack might be.]
Mark
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