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I recently made the switch to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 from windows 8. Is there a program similar to notepad++ for linux?

Although not part of the Ubuntu package and probably not of Red Hat either, I like GEDIT. Emacs is quite a bit more comprehensive, but will take some time to learn.

Yea it comes with Gedit i thought that was more like notepad for linux

feare56 wrote:I recently made the switch to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 from windows 8. Is there a program similar to notepad++ for linux?

There are quite many editor programs for linux: vim, emacs, gedit, kate, fte, several scintilla-based (same engine as in notepad++); if you want a very well written but paid application I would recommend Sublime Text 2.

You can use rpm command to find things in category "editors", that should list what you want (refer to this for more details about rpm).

Either Anjuta or Eclipse provide very good development environments on Linux. They are far more comprehensive than simple editors and, the latter in particular, require a little learning to get the most out of them. But well worth the effort for anything more complicated than a simple "Hello World" program. You could also look at Bluefish, which is a fairly sophisticated text editor.

I use eclipse day in day out at work. It is pretty good, but make sure you have a good few gigs of ram free. On my old work machine, eclipse would grind it to a halt when i was doing other things too such as running GIMP and several different types of web browser.

I'm not sure how well eclipse would fit into OS dev though, as it is more for Java than anything else. Sure, there are plugins to shoe-horn it into doing other tasks using facets etc, but in my experience theyre pretty poor compared to its reason for being, and that is purely Java. YMMV.

I find Eclipse just fine for managing a conventional makefile environmement with mixed C and assembler. It is a tad heavy on resources so Anjuta would be a better choice if RAM limited.