Showing posts with label text editor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label text editor. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Gedit, This Blows Away The Microsoft Comparable Product.

I'm such a nerd. Of all the things to get excited about with Linux, this is the one program that I personally feel is incredible. Gedit ! This definitely blows away the Microsoft version of notepad. I've been using Windows regularly since Windows 3.11 and I have to say Gedit is everything Microsoft Notepad should be. Notepad hasn't changed much in 20 years, and I never understood why.

So why am I raving about a program that's comparable to what might be considered the most boring pre-packaged software program ever developed. Because to me text editors are extremely useful. I know html almost by heart, I code in Notepad, and find myself using it often. One of the biggest issues I always had with it was no spell check. I'm an idiot when it comes to spelling , and rely heavily on spell check. It would also be nice to have some highlights in the code. Gedit does !

Last night I started coding out a website. I loaded Gedit in KDE and started typing away. I saved the file as html and to my surprise Gedit automatically highlighted all the code. Great feature when your looking for errors in your code. Then I got real excited and thought maybe there's a spell checker, and sure enough, I clicked on tools, scrolled down, and OMFG a spell checker. I must say, I was in nerd heaven !

After this discovery, I clicked on File/New to create another page, and OMFG again, the page loaded in a new tab. Now I could cut and paste back and forth between the template design. Maybe I'm a little over excited about a text editor, but Gedit is awesome. To me this program alone is worth the price of admission.