Searching for: A proper programming editor

Good evening,
in search for a good editor for doing some basic programming I have come across multiple applications, but I have not yet found the perfect one for me. With VIM I liked the auto-identation and even more the great color schemes. Coding looked great when using it - and it even worked with CLI only, but I have never plunged deeper into its own universe. What I do not like about VIM is the uncommon way of controlling it. I am used to do it the fast way - saving with CTRL+S - which takes me quite some more time with VIM, but that's something I could overcome. I had some problems with the control- and editing mode of this program. The paradigma behind VIM seems to be fascinating, but it might not be perfect for me.
Next one was Kate. Nice-looking KDE app, extensible and with a lot of options. Auto-Identation as well, but I miss the color schemes. Code looks awful, awful predefined colorschemes. I do not really want to work with it.
Scite - nice for editing but I could never get myself to like it.
What would be great would be an application like TextMate for Mac OS X. It supports some kind of IntelliSense (I have no other word for it - Visual Studio coined it back then) and keywords to create predefined codeblocks (for instance: typing pydef and hitting the tab key will create a fully matured def-structure for Python with spaceholders for each element from which to which you can jump by pressing tab). Nice colorschemes would make programming a lot more pleasuring. Maybe it's simply too much I want it to have, but maybe there's an app which gives me all I want and need.
Thanks in advance and greeting
cg

chaosgeisterchen wrote:What I do not like about VIM is the uncommon way of controlling it. I am used to do it the fast way - saving with CTRL+S - which takes me quite some more time with VIM, but that's something I could overcome.
If ctrl-s for save is something you want, you can easily implement it in vim.
inoremap <C-s> <esc>:w<cr>a
nnoremap <C-s> :w<cr>
If you decide to stick with :w (or even if you don't), I can recommend the following map:
nnoremap ; :
vnoremap ; :
This allows you to enter extended mode by just hitting ; instead of :. It seems like just a small change, but it really makes a big difference, at least for me.
mosor wrote:Actually, Vim doesn't have IntelliSense equivalent, because it doesn't "understand" the code, class hierarchies/members/methods, itd... That's something I miss the most while hacking Python code with Vim - WingIDE has such great code completion.
Make sure you have :set omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete, which it should be whenever you edit a python file, and use ctrl-x ctrl-o to complete. The completion isn't always perfect, but it works fairly well.

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Look good, but ONE thing: I found that F8 "Output" opens a screen that has some properties of a linux terminal except some weird "Exit code:1" messages. However, if I press the "up" arrow, it doesn't scroll through the console history but instead moves a cursor up. I need it to work like a linux terminal with history because I don't want to retype long commands all the time. It also doesn't show the correct type and color of my user prompt. Is there any way to get a more conventional console in the Scite window somewhere?
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