regexsoftware-recommendationtext-editor
I want to find a text editor capable of running and mainly storing regular expressions for later re-use. It should also be able to run them across multiple files.
I know I can get all that with grep, but there is not much for re-use on it. I was able to get some regular expression functionality on Gedit with plugins, but not nearly close to my needs.
There is EditPad Pro for Windows (runs on wine) but native is always better 🙂
is an integrated development environment that provides good column editing support which is worth checking out (an example here)
Simply put, press down Alt+Shift instead of just Shift while making selections to invoke column mode. One important limitation is that the edits in column mode are (as yet) not undo-able.
To achieve the same with the mouse, hold down Ctrl while selecting. This actually works with most Scintilla-based editors (including SciTE and Geany).
By far, the best tool for the job is RegExr.
The link above will take you to the online version, which is awesome and definitely the best RegEx tool I've ever used.
If you're looking for something you can install in Ubuntu, then try the desktop version, which is an Adobe Air application:
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The two classic open source Unix editors are GNU emacs and (g)Vim and both work fine on Ubuntu. They both have more features than you can learn about in a lifetime, including what you're after. There are plenty of others
twotoo, but you might as well start with the best. (I'll try not to get into which of these is better, since it's already an epic holy war.)By the way, sed is probably a better alternative than grep for RegEx manipulations from the commandline, and you can write and save scripts for it. (Of course you can use perl, awk and python for reg ex too.)
Some inspiration from xkcd: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png