-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:38:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > My environment is Jessie (8.6.0) with MATE desktop. > I require two things: > 1. a search and replace which can include a "newline" in new string. > 2. display/edit 2 files simultaneously *side by side* > > MATE's standard editor (Pluma) can handle the first easily. > > I see no way to open 2 instances of Pluma in separate windows - a la > Notepad in WindowsXP. Pluma will only open multiple files in > multiple tabs. > > The two files are nearly identical and need them displayed > simultaneously for instant visual comparison. Opening one of the > files read only would be acceptable but not preferable.
This nearly sounds like a description of Emacs' ediff mode. That said, Emacs is sufficiently different from the text editors around that tackling it amounts to taking a respectable hill. The view from up there, though, is breathtaking. Some tricks in the rough context of system administration: - transparent editing of files on other hosts, given only one of ssh/sftp/ftp access (tramp). - mixed marked-up text (à la Markdown) and code snippets, inserting the "result" of evaluating those code snippets in the text (code == C, Python, Perl, shells, R, many more), results can be text or images, for documenting (up to literary programming) - useful exploration of lots of files. The idiom of "find . -type f -name *blah -exec grep foo {} +" from your editor, with clickable links to the found lines - hex editor, psychotherapist, towers of Hanoi ;-) > Suggestions? That said, it takes some investment. Some would say it's a religion, but there are especially perverse polyreligious folks out there: I "am" Vim *and* Emacs (take that ;-) regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAljKgVcACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYjkgCdGos4ETw/d/wbjamy/7/vDUjY GtAAmgJliKRpwYucxh7iRBroqaQMlsWJ =3e/X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----