Gnome equiv. to Kate?

[Myles Braithwaite]

I am currently looking into E Text Editor (http://github.com/etexteditor/e) an
Open Source port of TextMate. It look promising, but still in development.

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I took a second look at 'gedit', and it seems a lot further on than last
> time I looked. Do you know if there is a "session manager" plugin for it? If
> there is, I think it will do the job perfectly.
>
> I work on a few different projects and often switch between them to snag
> code. Having an option to say "open files for project X" and have it
> remember what files I last had open in that project is one of my favourite
> features of kate.
>
> Madi
>
> Amanda Yilmaz wrote:
>>
>> I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned gedit; it's the official text
>> editor for GNOME, and as far as I know it's the closest equivalent to
>> Kate under GNOME.  For better or worse, and never having taken a liking
>> to either vim or emacs (I originally came to Linux from the Mac and
>> Windows GUI world), this is the text editor I use most often.
>>
>> While it may not be obvious at first, gedit can be turned into quite a
>> powerful and pleasant editor to use via its plugin architecture, and
>> many plugins are available.  None of the plugins are enabled by default,
>> however, so in order to use them you must explicitly enable the ones you
>> want through the Preferences dialog (Edit > Preferences > Plugins).  One
>> of the available plugins is File Browser Pane, which shows a list of
>> currently open files, exactly the way you mentioned - and yes, it
>> appears on the left, within gedit's Side Pane, which you can open via
>> View > Side Pane or by pressing F9.  Syntax highlighting is also
>> supported, and the list of supported languages is extensive.
>>
>> On Debian-based systems anyway (including Ubuntu), several plugins,
>> including the aforementioned File Browser Pane, Indent Lines (for
>> indenting or unindenting a selected code range), Snippets, and Sort, are
>> considered 'standard' and are included as part of the standard 'gedit'
>> package.  More plugins, including Character Map, Code Comment (for
>> commenting a selected code range in or out), Smart Spaces, and Embedded
>> Terminal, can be made available by installing the 'gedit-plugins'
>> package as well.  Your distro may have its packages set up differently,
>> of course.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Amanda
>
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