Try TextAdept, A Fast, Cross-Platform Text Editor That Comes With GTK And Ncurses Interfaces

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcK0NEMby9g/USDvmLF1usI/AAAAAAAANvo/IlnA8j1RaRY/s1600/textadept-splitview-snapopen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="textadept" border="0" height="189" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcK0NEMby9g/USDvmLF1usI/AAAAAAAANvo/IlnA8j1RaRY/s320/textadept-splitview-snapopen.png" title="textadept" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/">TextAdept</a> is a fast, minimalistic text editor that can be extended through Lua. The application is free, open source and runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept features unlimited split views, support for over 80 programming languages, powerful snippets and key commands, code autocompletition and API lookup and is entirely keyboard driven.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since our last TextAdept <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/textadept-is-lightweight-cross-platform.html">article</a></b>, the application has improved a lot, getting many new features and other changes, including:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">menu mnemonics for indentation size;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">support for indicator and hotspot events;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added native folding for more than 60% of existing lexers. The rest still use folding by indentation by default;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added language-specific context menu support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new dark and light themes and on-the-fly theme switching;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">autocomplete supports multiple selections;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more! </li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CBoGfZQlg1M/USDvbzTXHgI/AAAAAAAANvg/AG0nsk_7aBQ/s1600/textadept-ncurses.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="textadept-ncurses" border="0" height="207" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CBoGfZQlg1M/USDvbzTXHgI/AAAAAAAANvg/AG0nsk_7aBQ/s320/textadept-ncurses.png" title="textadept-ncurses" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">textadept-ncurses</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There's also a ncurses version now</b>, so you can run TextAdept in the terminal. The ncurses-based TextAdept is very user-friendly and easy to use - it follows the GNOME HID (Human Interface Design) key-bindings standard for many actions so you can use: Ctrl + s to save the file, Ctrl + o to open a file, Ctrl + q to quit and so on.</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-8kkI9MoSg/USDvvs7ripI/AAAAAAAANvw/ZqrTnaMybWY/s1600/textadept-buffers.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="202" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-8kkI9MoSg/USDvvs7ripI/AAAAAAAANvw/ZqrTnaMybWY/s320/textadept-buffers.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TextAdept buffers</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept doesn't uses tabs like most text editors and instead it uses the buffer browser - press Ctrl + b to open the buffers (files) switching dialog or use Ctrl + Tab to switch to the next buffer or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to switch to the previous one. Alternatively, you can also bring up the recent files dialog using Ctrl + Alt + o. And there is yet another way to quickly open files: snapopen, which behaves like the buffer browser, but displays a list of files to open which includes files in subdirectories - you can snapopen the current directory files using Ctrl + Alt + Shift + o.<br /><br />You can find the list of key bindings for both the GTK and terminal version <a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/api/_M.textadept.keys.html#Key.Bindings">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For extra TextAdept language modules, including LaTeX, Python, Markdown, CoffeeScript and so on, see the <a href="http://foicica.com/wiki/textadept">TextAdept wiki</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Download TextAdept</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/download">Download TextAdept</a></b> - there are binaries available for Linux (as tar.gz, so there are no deb or rpm files but you can simply extract the archive and run it), Windows and Mac OS X as well as source files.</div><br />Arch Linux users can install the latest stable TextAdept version via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/textadept-latest-stable/">AUR</a>.<br /><br />Ubuntu users can install TextAdept using using the main WebUpd8 PPA:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install textadept</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept should then show up in the menu / Dash. To use the ncurses-based version, type "textadept-curses" in a terminal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to make textadept-ncurses the default command line editor in Ubuntu, also install the following package:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install textadept-default-cli</code></pre><br />For how to use TextAdept, see the <a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/">manual</a> and its <a href="http://foicica.com/wiki/textadept">wiki</a> as well as the doc/ folder available in the TextAdept archive (available under <i>/opt/textadept/doc</i> for Ubuntu users who are using our PPA).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Bruce Ingalls!</i></div>

Try TextAdept, A Fast, Cross-Platform Text Editor That Comes With GTK And Ncurses Interfaces

TextAdept is a fast, minimalistic text editor that can be extended through Lua. The application is free, open source and runs on Windows, M...

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