Re:Ask HN: Why do you love your text editor?
by LarryA on Monday May 16, 2011 @04:39PM
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I use a few, usually I am working most with Kate via Quanta and Gedit.
Things I like about them
- they are fast - to load up and fast to do search/replace on large files.
- in the case of Gedit it works with the filesystem which works with FTP so I could do a quick edit on-line just by logging in and right-clicking a file - very convenient.
- Syntax Highlighting
- In the case of Kate also auto indent and in Quanta the autocomplete and highlighting open/close parenthesis, brace, bracket pairs.
What I would like to see is some editor that helps flag non-ISO-8859 characters.
Things I like about them - they are fast - to load up and fast to do search/replace on large files.
- in the case of Gedit it works with the filesystem which works with FTP so I could do a quick edit on-line just by logging in and right-clicking a file - very convenient.
- Syntax Highlighting
- In the case of Kate also auto indent and in Quanta the autocomplete and highlighting open/close parenthesis, brace, bracket pairs.
What I would like to see is some editor that helps flag non-ISO-8859 characters.