Chris Johnson wrote:
I'm running fedoracore 3 having moved to this from Suse after suse with 2.6 kernal wouldn't install on this particular box. On Suse I had KATE as an OK editor but I'm looking for something a bit more involved and I'm after your suggestions. I'm developing php based web pages so syntax highlighting would be good but I'm open to other features which others have founds useful. I'd prefer x based as opposed to text based as I'm still getting to grips with vi and I'm really slow! Are there any editors that will highlight brackets/parenthesis etc so you can immediately see where the corresponding opening/closing character is (similar to the highlighting in M$ excel when editing formulae)?? Any suggestions welcome.
I can recommend sticking with vim and GVIM. There is a learning curve, but it's well worth taking the time to learn how to use vim as it is a very powerful and versitile editor that you will find on almost any unix box. There's also a version of GVIM for Windows so you can use the same editor on all your computers. This is the biggest plus point for me - because I use it anywhere I don't have to think. I can use the same commands when editing a file in GVIM on WinXP as I do when I'm editing a file on the webserver using a terminal version of vi.. The command "<ESC>:set sm" will turn bracket matching on. There are syntax highlighting modes for more languages than you can shake a stick at, and there are plenty of colour schemes available. If you're using php then I can recommend the CleanPHP colour scheme. To turn syntax hightlighting on: "<ESC>:syntax enable" or choose "Automatic" from the "Syntax" drop down menu in GVIM. I can provide 101 resources for configuring and customising vim. If you're interested then drop me an email. Hope this helps Mark ___________________________________________________________________ Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk/mailfaq.html GNU the choice of a complete generation.