Comment 7 for bug 54068

FWIW, the closest equivalent I've found to Nedit is Kedit. It's part of KDE and is widely available, and it implements most of the same functionality including block selections, scripting (if memory serves), syntax highlighting for a wide range of languages (LaTeX almost for sure, not sure about Verilog), and has a few things Nedit lacks such as the ability to load and save files through ftp, sftp, etc (using io-slaves). In addition, since it's built on the modern QT toolkit it supports niceties like antialiased text rendering and drag-and-drop file loading.

There are downsides, though. For one thing, it requires a bunch of libraries which might otherwise not be needed (if you don't normally run KDE apps) and it's generally much more resource intensive and harder to port than Nedit. Getting it running on a Solaris is probably painful, for example.

More fundamentally, though, the user interface for Kedit is pretty poorly thought out in many cases. It's designed for consistency with other KDE apps, and KDE has some interface design errors which make it significantly less usable than it should be. Most importantly, it tends to follow the Microsoft button assignments which overuse the left button, which makes select, copy, drag etc. clumsy. And there are a few gotchas such as the find/replace dialog being modal.

My solution for the moment is Nedit on Gentoo.