Text Editors and IDEs

[zourtney]

Fill in the blank:

"Ya know there's got to be a decent ________ program out there for Linux, right?"

I was doing some Linux server config ("playing" around). I pretty much despise gedit so I asked Google what's out there. Well, I came across Geany. It seems on-par with Notepad++, though I've only used it briefly. In the Linux world (and after midnight), that's actually exciting.

Check it out if you're ever in the mood to do non-commandline text editing in Linux. We'll see if I still like it in 20 minutes

Edit: holy crap, it even added a context menu item in Gnome's window manager! Oh yeah, and you can apt-get it. (None of this compile from source manually after setting 16 environment variables and installing 3 concurrent versions of some JDK.)

[Nick]

I have always used kwrite over gedit. It will automatically check for changes in the source file (nice for looking at logs) and does syntax highlighting. And it comes default on any system with KDE installed. I will see if your suggestion is in the CentOS repos and give it a try.