Hello again.  I recently (this weekend) made the switch to Linux as my 
primary OS after being a Mac person since 1985.  One of the parts of the 
transition I'm having most trouble with is actually text editors... I was 
very happy with Tex Edit Plus on the Mac, and none of the editors that came 
with my distribution come close to its usefulness for my purposes.  
Specifically,

* When I click beyond the right-hand side of a line of text, I want the 
cursor to appear after the last character I typed on that line, not where I 
clicked (as happens in the KDE Text Editor and Advanced Editor).  KMail does 
a good job of this, but I can't use KMail for all my text editing needs.

* Ability to change quickly between CR, LF, and CRLF line endings is a must. 
The KDE Advanced Editor does this well, but the above-cited behavior makes it 
annoying otherwise.

* Ability to change the display font is also a must, since I find the font 
used by the KDE Advanced Editor hard to read. (Is there a way to change 
this??)

* I prefer not to discover arcane keyboard commands by mistake, so please 
don't tell me Emacs is the One True Editor.  I don't dispute that it's great. 
It's just not for me.

* Extra bells and whistles like rulers just slow things down... I guess this 
isn't the world's fastest computer.  I don't have a printer and don't do a 
lot of programming, so I don't need formatting tools for those purposes.

* Tex Edit has a nifty pop-up menu that lets you insert any ASCII character 
and shows you what character you've got if you select one.  Something like 
that would be handy, since I handle a lot of cross-platform files.  Heck, if 
it could recognize the Mac and Windows extended ASCII as well as Unicode, 
that would be a dream.

Suggestions?

Thanks again!  --Ben (running Yellow Dog Linux on a PowerBook G3)