Linux question, GUI "lightweight" text editors

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

 We have TextPad avail. at work.  It seems to do more than Notepad and
more geared to programming, config files and crap I do than Word (to
your mother).

Why don't you start by telling us which editors you've tried, that don't
fit the bill.  Make it a list and save us the multiplicity of emails
that say, "you can do all this with
vi/vim/emacs/gedit/kate/beaver/Ted/kedit."   Yes, I said Beaver.  And it
has  syntax highlighting.  :-)  http://www.nongnu.org/beaver/index.html


>-----Original Message-----
>From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org 
>On Behalf Of Jack
>
>For those out there familiar with UltraEdit in Windows, I have 
>a questioon. Is there a single Linux Editor that has most if 
>not all the features of UltraEdit?
>

>
>Partial list of functions:
>
>column or line text selection/editing,
>search with regular expressions,
>display/edit in hex,
>search in a directory tree for a string returning all lines 
>found with filename and line number and line of text, replace 
>in a directory tree a string, use special keystrokes in above 
>two features to search and or replace or add nonprinting 
>characters (e.g.
>newline),
>syntax highlighting,
>custom syntax definitions,
>word count,
>file position display (line and column), macros, line sorting, 
>data conversion (e.g. ASCII -> EBCDIC), etc.
>

>
>
>Brian JD
>