bar-cursor mode, which gives you a bar cursor for insertion, and a block cursor only for overwrite mode.C-a for “select all”: (global-set-key ‘mark-whole-buffer).(setq tabbar-buffer-groups-function (lambda (b) (list "All Buffers")) ) The following customization gives you Alt-Left and Alt-Right to move between tabs, and puts all tabs in the same group for simplicity: tabbar mode, which gives you something vaguely resembling a Firefox-like tab bar.Yet, despite that, it doesn’t interfere with the standard Emacs use of C-x and C-c as prefix keys: you still get the prefix key if you 1) don’t have a selection, or 2) hit the prefix key and the following key relatively quickly (well within tolerances for most people’s finger macros), or 3) use a capital letter (C-X, C-C). It gives you C-z undo, C-x cut, C-c copy, C-v paste, Shift-movement selection, type-over-selection replacement, and an awesome rectangle selection mode. I second the suggestion for Emacs with CUA mode. This entry was posted in Hacking by gerv. I suspect Eclipse would probably be far too heavyweight.Īnyone got any other ideas, or know anything I’ve missed about some of the above? If you comment, please let me know what editor you are using even if it doesn’t fit my requirements. There are some good editors for KDE, but I’d rather not load all the KDE libs on my GNOME desktop just to get an editor. XEmacs is, I suppose, a possibility, but I’d need to spend an age converting its 1970s keybindings into what the rest of the world uses today. Doesn’t notice when files have changed on disk.Spews pango errors into the console I launched it from ( really irritating).Copy and paste to other applications doesn’t work properly.Here’s what I’ve tried, and why I’ve rejected them: Supports standard Perl regexps in the search/replace box.
Supports, or can be made to support, the key bindings embedded in my brain like Ctrl-C for Copy, Ctrl-V for paste, Tab to indent selection.
Given the general usefulness of editors, and the fact that everyone and his mother seems to have written one, you would have thought it would be quite easy to find one which meets my simple requirements.
Having just upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu, and found that NEdit compiled with LessTif has even more bugs, and looks really ugly (and I can’t work out in which file to put the X resources given in the beautification tutorial) I’m thinking about a replacement. It has a number of annoying quirks, but it’s just about usable. For a long time I’ve used NEdit as my editor.
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