Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My environment is Jessie (8.6.0) with MATE desktop.
> I require two things:
> 1. a search and replace which can include a "newline" in new string.
> 2. display/edit 2 files simultaneously *side by side*
>
> MATE's standard editor (Pluma) can handle the first easily.
>
> I see no way to open 2 instances of Pluma in separate windows - a la
> Notepad in WindowsXP. Pluma will only open multiple files in
> multiple tabs.
>
> The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed
> simultaneously for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the
> files read only would be acceptable but not preferable.
This nearly sounds like a description of Emacs' ediff mode.
That said, Emacs is sufficiently different from the text editors
around that tackling it amounts to taking a respectable hill.
The view from up there, though, is breathtaking.
Some tricks in the rough context of system administration:
- transparent editing of files on other hosts, given only
one of ssh/sftp/ftp access (tramp).
- mixed marked-up text (à la Markdown) and code snippets,
inserting the "result" of evaluating those code snippets
in the text (code == C, Python, Perl, shells, R, many
more), results can be text or images, for documenting
(up to literary programming)
- useful exploration of lots of files. The idiom of
"find . -type f -name *blah -exec grep foo {} +"
from your editor, with clickable links to the found
lines
- hex editor, psychotherapist, towers of Hanoi ;-)
> Suggestions?
That said, it takes some investment. Some would say it's a
religion, but there are especially perverse polyreligious
folks out there: I "am" Vim *and* Emacs (take that ;-)
regards
- -- tomás
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