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Getting stuck on some heavy duty text editing…

A few months ago I finally took the plunge and downloaded and installed Notepad++ (for Windows).

There are plenty of advanced features and plugins available.

I especially like the ability to search for several occurrences of a string of text.

You can count the occurrences, without making changes… or you can mass replace each occurrence.

You can also bookmark every line containing that text.

Once the lines are bookmarked, you can copy all of them to the clipboard, at once… or delete them.

There are many more functions.

I was working on my Ubuntu laptop, and found some files that were quite large.

I almost looked into running Notepad++ on Wine.

I did a search and came up with Scite.

Scite has a similar look and feel to Notepad++.

The text search, count, replacement and bookmarking features are all there.

The only drawback is in the flexibility.

I have not yet found the ability to use plugins with Scite, but I am hoping it is there, somewhere.

You can install Scite from inside of the Ubuntu Software Center, or Synaptic Package Manager.

I took some time this weekend to upgrade my main laptop.

I have been running Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) since it was released.

Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) came out on April 29th.

I ran a few system checks prior to the upgrade.

As it turns out… three years of constant pounding on the hard drive had finally taken its toll.

I had a bad sector.

So, I replaced the drive and performed a fresh install.

It boots fast.

With this install, I did notice that fewer items are installed by default.

I was going to use Gimp to edit a photo… and could not find it.

Not really an issue. I fired up Ubuntu Software Center and installed it.

I do like the change of colors in the default install. I did not really mind the brown and orange… but the purple is a little more pleasing.

I am getting used to the changes.

Most are minimal and don’t make too much difference, as far as user adjustment goes.

You can download Lucid Lynx here.