I need a Linux text editor to replace Textpad 4.7.3 (a Windows nagware app), but all the alternatives I\'ve tried are either bloated or incomplete. Here are the features I find
I recommend Geany (version 0.15 now). It has all (or almost all) the features that you need.
Look in the manual to find the keys (I used it for a year before discovering that it had block selection).