Linux question, GUI "lightweight" text editors

[Chris Bier]

Jack wrote:
> 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?
> 
> For those that use Windows and don't use UltraEdit,
> you're missing out on the BEST Windows Editor there
> is.
> 
> 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.
> 
> There are a lot more features, but I rarely use more
> than this. This seems like something relatively easy
> to do in Linux, as all the basic tools seem to be
> available in any distro, but I can't say I've seen any
> editor with all of them. UltraEdit is $20 btw, and
> well worth it. It's paid for itself for me many times
> over. I couldn't tell you how many hours of work it
> has saved me. In fact it paid for itself the first
> time I ever used it. I'd pay $20 for a Linux solution
> that did all this. I'd probably pay even more than $20
> for it. Like I said, it looks easy, but not
> necessarily quick to build. I'm sure I could build
> one, if I had a few hundred hours of spare time.
> 
> 
> Brian JD

I think Nedit is what you're looking for.  http://www.nedit.org/
It can do pretty much everything on your list except edit in hex.  I've
added a few commands to mine.  It also has a win32 version in cygwin.

Chris
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