> Is there anything Linux-friendly with anything approaching the feature > set of the program that I am used to, BBEdit on the Power Macintosh...
BBEdit is just about the best text editor for the Macintosh, at least it was about 2 years ago. IMO, it's best strength was that you can use real regular expressions. Looking back, I'm sure it borrows heavily from different UNIX-based editors. It's my impression that the most similar editor in terms of raw capabilities is vim. However, its interface is significantly different. Vim does syntax highlighting for multiple languages, and can be made to do lots of things automatically. Vim with embedded scripting languages (Perl, Python, tk) gives it even greater potential. Plus, it's faster than most of the alternatives. But the nice thing about Emacs is that tons of that automatic customization stuff is already done -- no need to spend hours writing a .vimrc in a half-Perl, half-ex language. It also allows you to use editing keystrokes that are similar to what you'd be used to from the Mac. The biggest downside is that it's HUGE. Of course, both editors have good support for regular expressions, though their interpretation of those expressions differs slightly. Once you get used to either, I'm pretty sure that you'd say, "hey, this is even *better* than BBEdit!" Jesse
