Looking for a KATE replacement

[Mike Jeays]

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 04:35, Frank Staals wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> When I started using FreeBSD for desktop usage ( about a year ago ) I 
> used KDE as desktop manager, but now I am using XFCE4.2.1 for that 
> purpose. But when writing html pages, scripts, programs etc I still use 
> KATE ( KDE Advanced Text Editor ), the thing is that it starts up realy 
> slow ( probably because it has to load a lot of basic kde stuff ).
> 
> So the question was does anyone know a good graphical replacement for 
> Kate, I esspecially like the bar on the left which lets you easily 
> switch between multiple files, and the build in terminalclient on the 
> bottom. I tried looking in the ports/editors section but there are that 
> many editors I realy don't know what to use. I am looking for a 
> graphical editor, not commandline ( therefor I allready use joe ).
> 
> So anyone ideas ?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Frank Staals
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I often use nedit.  It is a bit more primitive than kate, but loads very
quickly, and knows about the syntax of a good variety of languages,
colouring the text in a useful way (you can of course turn this off if
it doesn't turn you on...)

It is in the ports collection under /usr/ports/editors.

Gedit is the GNOME equivalent of kate, but it is also slow to load.