Lightweight IDE for Linux [closed]

Answer 1

I would say Bluefish, not an I.D.E but a nice lightweight code editor with syntax highlighting and code completion (and many others) for quite an array of languages (among them C and Php).

Answer 2

gedit

• Syntax highlighting
• Fast, lightweight
• Tabs
• GUI

Answer 3

• You can look at jEdit if you are using or have Java installed.
• jEdit (wikipedia article)

Again it's a 'smart editor' rather than an IDE. Seems to know how to handle most languages and once its started it is pretty smart, still Java but less resource hungry than Netbeans and Eclipse.