Following "Open Company" idea, E Text Editor got open sourced.
E Text Editor is Win port of The programming editor for MacOS, TextMate.
This is pretty nice day for OS community, not because of "E Text Editor", but coz of Open Company idea.
Anyone have info on how to recompile this for linux? Text in first link states it needs ecore library. Is that released yet? Any info on when it will be?
GUI programs like text editors are built on some sort of GUI toolkit. Chances are good that E is built on top of win32, which means that you'd have to rewrite all of the GUI code to port it to linux. Because a text editor is mostly GUI code, you may as well start from scratch.
I would recommend trying out Vim or Emacs. They are both very excellent programming text editors. If neither of those suit you, check out gedit. Or, if you're more of an IDE kind of guy, I'd recommend Eclipse.
I agree 100% with Benson's assessment (including his recommendation of Vim).
However, if you're hell-bent on using this editor on linux, rather than recompiling, is there a reason you can't just run it under Wine? That will run the native windows binary on linux. It works with most apps... I don't know if it will work with this one.
I agree with the other suggestions to "just use Vim".
But it does look like a version of "e text editor" will be available for Linux, although is apparently not quite ready now:
"There has been many questions about whether the release of the source would make it possible to build a Linux version. The answer is yes. The source does build under Linux, it just needs a Linux version of the ecore library which will be released shortly."
"The editor could not have been build without the support of a lot of open source projects (most notably wxWidgets). So to give back, the Linux version will be totally free (as in beer)." http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/releasing-the-source
The E TextEditor's GUI is written in wxWidgets so there is no need to think about starting from scratch. as far as the required ecore library; this blog post states:
The source does build under Linux, it just needs a Linux version of the ecore library which will be released shortly.
To keep everyone happy I would suggest that you start learning Vim while waiting for the Linux port of ecore.