Text editor for Chromebook

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I am looking for a better text editor for my Chromebook.

I like the builtin Text App, except it doesn’t have global replace ( I use vim for that ), but most seriously (and bizarrely ) when you scroll in one file, every other file scrolls to that line as well, and I am fed-up with that.

I tried Zed but it didn’t work, some kind of video not supported error (“Unsupported GPU”).

I can use vim when I need to, but it doesn’t scroll nicely and is awkward for editing a lot of files at a time.

So what I would like is something similar to the builtin Text app, but which doesn’t do the weird scrolling thing. Any ideas?

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Technically chrome (browser) is shipped with a built-in IDE in DevTools => Snippets => Sources.

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what part of vim is difficult with more than one file?
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oh, I think I see. you want to do batch edits across multiple files?

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Wow, I would never have thought of that. Thanks, seems to be working quite nicely!

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I write my programs in gedit, which is just a text editor (plus some built-in syntax highlighting). No idea if it works on a Chromebook.

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Web editors are very powerful, not less than gedit. Personally, I started from gedit, then switched to VSC, and finally stick with a web editor. As a benefit, I can do development on any device as iPad, Amazon Fire, Apple Neo, or Chrome book. My web server where actual Rust compilation and other activities happen is running on Raspberry Pi 4. Sure, the final product can run on some Cloud server with TB size RAM.