TextMate Equivalent for Linux?
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I created a screencast here: http://www.rubyhead.com/2009/04/24/komodo-edit-textmate-alternative/
Please see my post here: http://www.rubyhead.com/2009/02/20/search-is-over-textmate-equivalent-and-more-for-linux-windows/
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I’ve been struggling to find a text editor for Ruby/Rails development on Ubuntu. I even went as far as make gedit look like TextMate. However, it’s just not the same.
The thing that I should’ve done was to look for the best tool, not the best text editor.
It didn’t take much convincing for me to install NetBeans. I’m just glad that all the bitching I did about NetBeans are gone with my lost archive of blog posting from several years back. NetBeans has improved so much since the early days. And no, it’s not just about Java. It supports Ruby and Rails beautifully. It even gave me a glimpse of Intellisense from my days in Microsoft world.
*** Update ***
I now use geany with file browser plugin. Granted it’s not TextMate, but I’m loving it at this time!!! Take a look at it at http://geany.uvena.de and judge for yourself.
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2 Responses to “TextMate Equivalent for Linux?”
vim or gvim ,if you push past the learning curve it is a very powerful and customizable editor.
I agree. There’s a nice video on Google’s engedu video lecture about using vim. For me however, my fingers hurt from years and years of typing, so I need something that let’s me use my mouse more and less typing.