Searching for a good Editor...

Greetings, Folks.

After twenty-five years of practice, I can't seem get away from the original DOS test editing keys. These are the ones I use most:

- Shift+End select text to end of line
- Shift+Home select text to start of line
- Shift+Del cut selected text
- Ctrl+Ins copy selected text
- Shift+Ins paste selected text

Does anybody know a good Linux test editor that supports these keys? Mind you, I'm looking for a programmers editor (plain text, macros, syntax highlight, and such), not a word processor.

Any advice would be appreciated...

Take care,
Simon

Hi Simon,

I don't do it myself but you can look here:

http://lifehacker.com/5911460/the-best- ... -for-linux

http://www.linux.org/threads/text-editors.4104/

I can only assume that you can allocate keys?.

Greetings, Wolfman.

Found some... These are supported:

- Shift+End select text to end of line
- Shift+Home select text to start of line

They start to work when in System Tools | Preferences | Tweak Tools
Subject: Typing | Option: Miscellaneous compatibility options
is set to
Shift with numeric keypad keys works as...
you can't see the rest of the line, but I presume it is "in Windows" -smile-

These probably need some keyboard binding...

- Shift+Del cut selected text Ctrl+X
- Ctrl+Ins copy selected text Ctrl+C
- Shift+Ins paste selected text Ctrl+V

...tomorrow...
Simon