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E Text editor received OpenSourced !!! How to recompile for linux?

Following the Open Joint Stock Company , E Text Editor received an open source.

E Text Editor is a Win-port of the Program Editor for MacOS, TextMate.

It's a pretty nice day for the OS community, not because of the "E Text Editor", but because of the Open Company idea.

Does anyone have any info on how to recompile this for Linux? The text in the first link indicates that he needs the ecore library. Is it still released? Any information on when it will be?

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E TextEditor is a graphical editor written in wxWidgets, so there is no need to think about starting from scratch. how much ecore library is required; this blog post :

The source is created on Linux, it just needs a version of the ecore library for Linux, which will be released soon.

To make everyone happy, I suggest you start learning Vim while waiting for the Linux ecore port.

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GUI programs, such as text editors, are built on some kind of GUI toolkit. Most likely, E is built on top of win32, which means that you have to rewrite all the GUI code to move it to linux. Since the text editor is mainly a graphical interface, you can start from scratch.

I would recommend trying Vim or Emacs. They are both very excellent text editors. If none of them suits you, check out gedit. Or, if you are more like a guy with an IDE, I would recommend Eclipse.

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I agree with the other "just use Vim" suggestions.

But it seems that the version of the "text editor" will be available for Linux, although, apparently, now it is not quite ready:

"There were many questions about whether the release of the source would make it possible to build a version of Linux. The answer is yes. The source creates Linux, it just needs the Linux version of ecore, which will be released shortly."

"The editor could not be built without the support of a large number of open source projects (primarily wxWidgets). So, to return, the Linux version will be completely free (like in beer)." http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/releasing-the-source

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I agree 100% with Benson's assessment (including his Vim recommendations).

However, if you are damn tired of using this editor on Linux, rather than recompiling, is there a reason why you cannot just run it under Wine ? This will run the native windows binary on linux. It works with most applications ... I don't know if it will work with this.

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TextMate Port ?! You children are funny.

"In 2004, Allan Odgaard began developing TextMate." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextMate

TWO DECADES after the E editor, which is used by all users at IBM for DOS and OS / 2.

"The limitations in the Personal Editor led to the development and release in 1984 of the E editor, a much faster editor that supported very long files and included a significantly enhanced user interface." via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(PC-DOS)

The true "E" editor is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlickEdit

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