Thread: Text Editor (RH Linux)

Hi! I've recently installed Red Hat Linux 9 on my PC, for software development purposes. I hear good things when it comes to Linux and programming.

I've tried using the emacs text editor that came with the linux distribution, but I just don't like it. I think it's just too compliated for what I want to do with it; code C programs.

Do any of you know of any other good editors for Linux when it comes to editing C programs? I'm not looking for anything complex. I just want some color highlighting (keywords, text, numbers, etc..) and automatic indenting, line numbers, maybe a find and replace option. Perhaps I didn't have the emacs setting correct, but it auto-indented to a programming style I didn't really like.. for example.

what I would do...

Code:

    for (x = 0; x < 10; X++)
    {
        printf("This is printing %d", x);
    }

and what emacs forced me to do...

Code:

    for (x = 0; x < 10; x++) /* had to press TAB here */
        {                               /* pressed TAB here.. went too far */
             printf("This is printing %d", x); /* had to press TAB */
        }

I would just rather use a different program for editing my code.

Anyone have any suggestions? I downloaded a few that I thought were OK, but I'd like to hear if anyone has an editor they would really reccomend. (GNU of course!)

Thanks for your time!

Learning emacs would defeat the purpose of finding another program, as I didn't want to take the time to teach myself emacs.

One of the reasons I'm experimenting with linux is I want to spend more of my energy on creativity, rather than the tools I'm using. I'm willing to learn GCC, because I come to understand that it has powerful error checking capabilities that would catch program-crashing errors, which would go un-noticed by my windows-based compiler.

Thanks for your thoughtful suggestion, but I'll keep looking. I found a few promising editors today I thought I'd try. If all else fails I'll revert back to Windows.

If I remember correctly, when I had Caldera OpenLinux on my computer years ago I used a text editor called kwrite. I thought it was easy to use for programming. I think it automatically indented and when typing a closing bracket it highlighted the matching open bracket.

Maybe kwrite is still around and comes in an RPM and works on redhat. I was using kde and I don't know if kwrite works with gnome.

I didn't want to learn emacs or vi because I wanted to get right to a project I had going.

-Peter

Did you try with Rhide ?

THanks, folks!

I like the feel of the Nedit. It has a simple user interface and the features I'm looking for. There must be a bug in it, I might try fixing it.. depends on how long it takes. "Error Segemtation Fault"... and the files won't save.

you are going to be using X, there are a pile of choices. Do they offer gedit on RH9?

Yup, it's there . It's what I've been using to read the README files when installing these editors.

I know I sound like I'm trying to rush through things... 'cause I am. I haven't touched my project in 2 weeks and would really like to get back to it!