h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm after a simple text editor which keeps a tree view of directories/files in a pane, so you can easily make modifications to a whole load of files...

Think Windows Explorer with a third pane which is a text editor...

Does anyone know of any?

Alternatively, a tree-based file manager for Java would be pretty easy to modify to do what I want... but I've been completely unable to find one of those, either.

Anyone?

(oh, and I'm running Linux here)

Pencil and paper are both tree-based...

The most relevant page I found for a java file manager is one setting it as a homework assignment ... it's really not that hard, I guess, but I have absolutely no desire to devote three or four hours to it.

Seriously, the product that comes to mind is "Norton Commander", a piece of "abandonware" (unsupported by the original authors and not mentioned on their website) - what you want is the Linux clone which, I'm pretty sure, was called "Midnight Commander". I can't remember if it was freeware or shareware, but it was supplied as standard on many text-based distros such as Ygddrasil.

(Check your hdd for a file called "MC.COM" - it may have been installed as part of your standard package. Or just type "MC" from a command prompt and see what happens... It's text only, but will run inside a window in X.)

Hmm, yus, I have Midnight Commander... not to worry, though, I just wrote a Java one

I have yet to learn to enjoy wrestling with their APIs , but it gets things done in the end...

can't you just use konqueror? or somthing similiar?

-- DoctorMO --

Does it have a text editor built in?...

I use gnome, anyway -- but not nautilus. I've found it to be far too slow, and the tree-view is also rather poor... I haven't quite worked out what's wrong with it, but I didn't find it usable. Konqueror may be better...

What I'd do is use a split screen with one of them being a text editor one is the folder and then you just have the tree menu.

-- DoctorMO --