editor blues (again!)

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Re: editor blues (again!) by mwah (Hermit) on Oct 27, 2007 at 22:56 UTC
Pstack: fascisti, KATE, KDE-3.4,custom syntax colours, off the menu Maybe I didn't get the joke in this, but here I have kate 2.5.7 on KDE 3.5.7 and there's an option [Settings]=>[Configure Kate]=>[Editor]=>[Fonts&Colors] where they allow me to load schemes for a zillion of languages and actually modify them at will (in the "Highlighting Text Styles"-Tab). What's the context of your complaint? FC4? Why not drop it? Regards mwa	[reply]
Re^2: editor blues (again!) by Pstack (Scribe) on Oct 28, 2007 at 02:08 UTC
"....and actually modify them at will (in the "Highlighting Text Styles"-Tab)." Ooops .. egg on my face again! Why could I not find that myself seeing as how I've used it intensively for 3 years? A nice reward, thanks mwah. Pstack	[reply]
Re^2: editor blues (again!) by Pstack (Scribe) on Oct 30, 2007 at 22:35 UTC
P.S. Not total joy however. Kate 3.4 seems to insist on altering the carefully mastered users and permissions on every rewrite-save of a re-edited script, resulting in catastrophic failures like " * glibc detected * /usr/bin/perl: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x094f3240 *** " . I cannot see anywhere that I can put a stop to this intrusion over the mastered settings? May I hope to be wrong yet again? Pstack	[reply]
Re: editor blues (again!) by andyford (Curate) on Oct 27, 2007 at 22:09 UTC
As I recall it, vim was really easy to add menu items to. If you're really particular about your menus, the only real solution is to find an editor that customizable. non-Perl: AndyFord.org Reverbnation	[reply]
Re^2: editor blues (again!) by Pstack (Scribe) on Oct 28, 2007 at 02:01 UTC
cheers ... but a creature of the cold war.	[reply]
Re: editor blues (again!) by TOD (Friar) on Oct 28, 2007 at 00:23 UTC
what about nedit on gtk2? -------------------------------- masses are the opiate for religion.	[reply]
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Re: editor blues (again!) by Skeeve (Parson) on Oct 28, 2007 at 07:17 UTC
I use jEdit on all systems I come across: Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and even WinDOS. `s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{});#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(\|?{%` `+`.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: editor blues (again!) by Anonymous Monk on Oct 28, 2007 at 09:41 UTC
SciTE	[reply]
Re^3: editor blues (again!) by Pstack (Scribe) on Oct 29, 2007 at 02:03 UTC
Another one to play with -- 'yum install scite' is underway. Cheers.	[reply]
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Re: editor blues (again!) by samtregar (Abbot) on Oct 28, 2007 at 19:32 UTC
So, once again, find myself looking for a GUI to do it MY WAY (equivalent to EditPlus in Windows). Have you tried running EditPlus with Wine? Alternately you could hack custom colors back into Kate. If they used to be customizable it's probably an easy change. Back in the day I did something similar to Pine to change some key configs and it was definitely worth the minimal effort. -sam	[reply]
Re^2: editor blues (again!) by Pstack (Scribe) on Oct 29, 2007 at 01:55 UTC
Well, mwah set me straight on getting updated kate to customise, so I can stick there meantime. Problem was the switching of customisable dialogs around -- they were always laid out somewhat unintuitively for me, and the ever diminishing eyesight did not handle the new tangle. Having found that, blasted the blinding preponderance of reddish colours, Kate now works fine for me as before, and I do also love the (better than EditPlus) extra features it provides -- a toggleable tack-on terminal emulator that follows your navigation around (most of the time) and 'string-search in subtree' functionality. All in all, I really do rate Kate. I appreciate your contribution nonetheless. cheers Pstack	[reply]