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Geany

What is geany? is it someone from Aladdin movie? Nope, this is not from any movie. Even it's not somebody's name. It's a GTK text editor. To me, it's by far the best text editor I've use. It has many feature, some of which is symbol (function, class, variable, etc) list, embedded terminal emulator, scribble for writing your note (could be used as snippet panel), build tools. You might wanna say that this feature are all available in other editor. But, geany have one good feature that, well, I would say it as hidden feature that not many editor has it. As a developer you might happen to encounter this condition, where you want to know where's this variable or a piece of text used. You just need to write the information in find dialog and find all in documents. The messages panel will show you in which line this variable is used.

I'm use this editor since the time I discover it. Because it's convenient to test my php / shell script directly from the editor with terminal emulator. Just F4 >> test >> F2 >> edit >> F4 >> test >> F2 >> edit >> and so on. Oh, i forgot to mention that this editor has color chooser dialog for you to pick when dealing with html or css. It also has plugin support. Auto-completion support is available too. So, why don't you try it if you haven't,  because it's available in windows version too.

Nothing is 100% perfect. This goes too for geany. I miss a feature that's implemented as plugin on kate, my previous text editor. That's word completion plugin. This plugin work as auto completion but it take a list from text taken from current document. Hope someone implement this plugin for geany soon.