[ale] Ultraedit type editor for Linux

[John Wells]

Nathan,

I was in your situation once.  I was an UltraEdit junkie.  I finally found
jEdit (http://www.jedit.org).  There was an adjustment period, but it was
the only thing I could find that comes close (even surpasses) UltraEdit.

Make sure you use the Plugin Manager to install the various plugins
(everything is a plugin!).  It does support Save to/open from FTP, and
even remote filesystem browsing.  I think you'll find it a worth
replacement.

One caveat...it's written in Java.  It's one of the fastest Java gui apps
I've seen, but there's still a performance hit.  Other than that, life
will be great ;-).

Good luck.

John

Nathan Underwood said:
> I've used Linux in a server (web, dns, file / print sharing, some LDAP,
> etc.) environment for a while, and am really trying to move to Linux for
> my desktop OS, but I'm running into a few speedbumps.  I won't go into
> the hardware issues (OpenGL, USB mouse, Umax scanner connected to an
> Adaptec 2940 [instead of that stupid card that came with it], etc., I
> think I've just about got those worked out), but I would like to ask for
> your help in the software dept.  The one thing that I'm really trying to
> find is something like Ultraedit for Linux (not Wine + Ultraedit, but
> just a plain old Ultraedit type editor).  I do a lot of Web Development
> type stuff (mostly PHP), and I love that with Ultraedit I can open from
> / save to FTP.  I'm using Bluefish right now, in conjunction with my
> good ole cli ftp, but it's really getting old, when I can look over at
> my Win2k box and think about just saving it directly to the remote box
> via ftp.  Plus, I can edit pretty much anything with UE.  Have any of
> you found a capable replacement?  My ideal product would have:
>
>  - Syntax highlighting (PHP, HTML, Javascript, bash, perl, C, C++, etc.)
>  - Save to / Open from FTP
>  - Fast (UE is very fast at opening large files)
> Pretty simple list (I think), but I'm having trouble finding anything.
>
> many thanks!
>
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