Looking for a KATE replacement

Shantanoo Mahajan shantanoo at gmail.com
Tue May 3 10:18:53 PDT 2005


+++ Clement Twine [02-05-05 14:24 +0200]:
| 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.

After going through the kvim's homepage, http://www.freehackers.org/kvim/,
it not being maintained. I suggest using gvim instead of it.

Regards,
Shantanoo


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