I want an editor that is as good as TextPad (for Windows) for compiling and running Java programs on Ubuntu 12.04. Please suggest one.
From the official site:
Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of
an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a
small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other
packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.
Additionally, jEdit (man page) seems to be another excellent option for your tasks.
From the man site:
jEdit is a cross-platform text editor written in Java. It has
an extensive feature set that includes syntax highlighting, auto
indent, folding, word wrap, abbreviation expansion, multiple
clipboards, powerful search and replace and much more.
Furthermore, jEdit is extremely customizable, and extensible,
using either macros written in the BeanShell scripting language, or
plugins written in Java. With plugins, you can create a very
powerful development environment for HTML, XML, C/C++, Python, Perl,
Ruby, Lisp, Scheme, and many others.
jEdit Requires Sun Java 2 version 1.5.
jEdit is released under the GNU General Public License, which can
be found in the online help.
