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Old 08-05-2011
Any better text editor for unix?
Do you know any text editor (other than Gvim, which I am using) which is made specially for c type languages?

The reason I ask for it is: I just spent 3 hours trying to find out start "if" and its end "if end".Smilie

I hope there is an editor which can link each if with its closing endif .
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Old 08-05-2011
Quote:
The reason I ask for it is: I just spent 3 hours trying to find out start "if" and its end "if end"
Smilie I'm afraid there is not.
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Code:
vim +/'if\_.\{-}if end' YOURFILE

and then use 'n'. Or just use '/if end' and 'n' (in normal mode).
Last edited by yazu; 08-05-2011 at 04:32 AM..
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Old 08-05-2011
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Originally Posted by yazu
Code:
vim +/'if\_.\{-}if end' YOURFILE

and then use 'n'. Or just use '/if end' and 'n' (in normal mode).
yazu, what it is actually doing? I do not understand this "\_.\{-}" expression, could you tell me what it is for?
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Old 08-05-2011
This is equivalent to perl regex: /if.*?if end/s
Code:
:h \_.

\_. Matches any single character or end-of-line.
Code:
:h \{

\{-} matches 0 or more of the preceding atom, as few as possible
# 5  
Old 08-05-2011
Hi.

There are more than 500 projects in the text editors section at:
Code:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=text+editor&fq[]=trove%3A63

for various sub-specialties. It includes vim-like, etc. Perhaps you can find something there.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
 
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