Looking for a KATE replacement

Clement Twine clem.twain at gmail.com
Mon May 2 05:25:01 PDT 2005


Shantanoo Mahajan wrote the following on 05/01/2005 04:58 AM:
> +++ Frank Staals [freebsd] [30-04-05 10:35 +0200]:
> | 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 ).
> 
> gvim, (x)emacs, bluefish, ...

is gvim the same as kvim (apart from one being for KDE ane the other 
for GNOME?) Do they offer same functionality? It seems (not sure 
though) that KDE apps are more refined than GNOME apps.

Clem.


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