Ultraedit Replacement ???

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xanthax · Post by **xanthax** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:45 pm

Hmm,... I have a problem......

Im looking for a text/hex/coding program for gentoo, im used to use Ultraedit in windows and i loved it.
But since i converted to gentoo i cant find a nice replacement....

I tried Vim and hated it, i tried Emacs and felt even worse about it, same with nedit and so on....
The only programs that is close that i found so far is "nano" and "cooledit",
but both of them are missing critical parts of coding and HexEditing and so on.

So anyone got a tip ???
I want a combined Hex/Text/Coding - Editor (*PREFERABLY GRAPHICAL*)

HELP ?

//XanthaX

Drunkula · Post by **Drunkula** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:47 pm

Have you tried loading UltraEdit using WINE? I haven't tried it myself but I bet it would work...

xanthax · Post by **xanthax** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:51 pm

No i acually haven't but it will be my last way out,
i would preferably have a linux application instead of running windows aplications through a emulator....

But thanks Drunkula...

smurfd · Post by **smurfd** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:04 pm

anjuta, kdevel, eclips, gedit?!

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:13 pm

kate scite

xanthax · Post by **xanthax** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:16 pm

tried kdevel, eclips and anjunta and uses anjunta for c++ programming but its to much jidderish around it.

And now i have tried GEdit and it was best so far but it missing the hexediting possibillities.... ;(

But thanks.... keep it comming....

EDIT:
Tried KATE and it was ok but still no hexediting ;(....
Tried scite and it wasnt that good..... ;(

shinadul · Post by **shinadul** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:26 pm

For hex-editting I use bvi.

I am already a huge fan of VI, so bvi is a welcome addition in my book.

xanthax · Post by **xanthax** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:39 pm

oki it seems like there is no good text/hex editor,
wich means either wine and ultraedit or using seperate hexeditor and text editor....

well keep it komming with suggestions...
and thanks so far....

Mandos · Post by **Mandos** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:53 am

How about jEdit?

There is a hex editor plugin for it, listed on this page:

http://plugins.jedit.org/list.php?category=11

Carlo · Post by **Carlo** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:55 am

There are lots of text and hex editors, sed and gawk, but nothing that comes near to Ultraedit.

smurfd · Post by **smurfd** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:20 pm

the editor in MC (Midnight commander, norton commander clone) does hex edit..

otherwise ghex i belive the name is, is a gnome hex editor.

mwilliamson · Post by **mwilliamson** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:50 pm

KDE also has a hexeditor, khexedit. This and kate are nice.

CorpseOfMystic · Post by **CorpseOfMystic** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:00 pm

mwilliamson wrote:KDE also has a hexeditor, khexedit. This and kate are nice.

I second this. Kate is much nicer than UltraEdit, and KHexEdit adds the hex editing support.

Galahad · Post by **Galahad** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:51 pm

nedit, but that too has no hex part.

ruben · Post by **ruben** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:10 pm

I know you tried Emacs and felt even worse about it than about Vim, but Emacs does have a hex editing mode which is accessible with "M-x hexl-find-file". In case you give Emacs a second try, i'd say, emerge "emacs-cvs", i'm using it all the time and it's very stable for me. If you use the "gtk" use flag, you'll get GTK2 scrollbars, menu and iconbar. I'd also advice to read the tutorial (accessible from the menu with Help->EmacsTutorial). Emacs is everything you want it to be... Whether it's graphical or not, depends on your definition of graphical... You can run is as a pure console program or as an X11 program.
Anyways... long time ago, i was using windows and i also used UltraEdit. I thought that closest to that (well, closest to the older versions of ultraedit) is Nedit. What is it you don't like about nedit?

garion911 · Post by **garion911** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:45 am

I happen to use SlickEdit which probably has all of what you are looking for... Emulates several different keybindings (I use Brief), including VI and Emacs.. Hex editing, syntax highlighting, etc.. Availble on Windows, Linux, Mac, and several other Unix..

It does cost $$$ though..

kiesa · Post by **kiesa** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:59 pm

Hi,

Any of these editors support file editing on remote server as UltraEdit does?

--
Jaska

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:19 am

kiesa wrote:Hi,

Any of these editors support file editing on remote server as UltraEdit does?

--
Jaska

gvim has support for remote files. If gvim's "Command mode" and "Insert mode" seems too much, you can instead open your file using evim or vim -y, which always opens the editor in "Insert mode".