What to use on Linux until....

[Robbage]

So I've installed Linux. What should I use until Helios do us a favour?
The supplied editors (emacs, advanced editor etc) make me cringe! Something half as good as TP would be a start

[mo]

Second this! Write Helios...I know they are aware of the need, but they are a business, they need to know there is an audience out there willing to pay for the product.

I use nedit which is not nearly as polished, but passes. I used kate (KDE for a while but it keeps crashing on me (most likely my own fault).

mo

[Xenos]

I just use Wine to run TextPad.

[robbage]

Ta.. I'll have a look out for nedit. I haven't had much success installing Wine and my objective is to banish windows eventually anyway. I'm pretty sure the TP for Linux issue has already been raised with Helios a few times Maybe its already being developed....

[Ollie Rutherfurd]

If you're looking for a cross platform alternative to TextPad, I'd suggest taking a look at jEdit. It has most of the features that TextPad has as well as a plugin architecture, with 70+ plugins available (Diff, FTP, and many more).

[http://www.jedit.org/].

It's written in Java, which makes start-up slower than TextPad, so I still use
TextPad for big log files, but jEdit is an extremely capable editor (and it's free).

Note: I'm *not* trying to start a flamewar -- I use TextPad and have a license for it and it's a great editor.

[robbage]

Thanks Ollie, I'll check it out. Lets wait til TP is ported before worrying about flamewars