Currently I am evaluating Eclipse, an high feature free texteditor and more, written in Java, available both for windows and linux, and in a dual boot I beleive it even should be possible to share config space on a shared disk area when using dual boot (not verified).
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However. Even though Eclipse has some nice features, like code outline, better search options, source control, options for plugins, and manymore, I still cant get text pad out of my mind. Simply because I do not need all the many fancy features in eclipse (except of code outline and better search) and because of text pads smooth GUI, macro feature, and also block select feature, which I miss in eclipse.
Therefore, I would actually vote YES for a linux port of textpad. But most important to me is to see that text pad was equipped with a code outline feature which would make textpad a state of art text editor, fulfilling all of my needs... Ahh, yes, one more thing, Textpad explorer does feel a bit slow in use but one can live with that...
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