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Ask HN: Graphical OSS code editor for Linux?

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I have tried to find a good general purpose open-source code editor for Linux, but am having difficulties finding one. Vim and Emacs are out. What graphical editors are there that you would give your vote for?

Features that I seek are:

  * Syntax highlighting, Auto-indent, In-/deindent with tab, Tabs to spaces
  * Code block visualization (and folding), Variable highlighting
  * Changing of eol(crlf/lf/..) and encoding
  * (Column mode editing), (Multiple views)
  * Font selection

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olgeni
Some random ideas:

   http://kate-editor.org/
   http://www.jedit.org/
   https://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
   http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
   http://www.kdevelop.org/
Also eclipse and netbeans if you add some plugins?
bgar
Could you tell us the reason you're not considering neither Vim nor Emacs? Genuinely curious.
memracom
Vim does all of these. And it comes with a GUI, gvim, although the job of a text editor is so non-GUI that it seems ridiculous to describe a text editor for source code as a "graphical editor". Before you dismiss Vim, have a look at Cream http://cream.sourceforge.net/ which is just Vim with a better default config. Also look at Vim as Your IDE http://haridas.in/vim-as-your-ide.html

Most people who want a GUI end up with Eclipse or IntelliJ or Netbeans

bnejad
He specifically says no Vim or Emacs. So what was the point of your post?
zem
* komodo edit * geany * jedit * kate