After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> __/ [Linønut] on Monday 09 January 2006 03:37 \__
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>> After takin' a swig o' grog, John Bailo belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> One thing that I realized is missing from Linux is a super simply windowed
>>> text editor, like Notepad or Editpad pro.
>>>
>>> Something fast, lite, and without a lot of frame "real estate" [menus,
>>> icons, etc ].
>>
>> You mean like gedit? Or gnotepad+? Or even NotePad running under Wine?
>
> I think that John ought to use kedit. kwrite (part of kate) is slightly more
> bloated (just slightly). As Bailo uses KDE (from the sound of it; he uses
> Gwenview), GNOME editors would probably be irrelevant.
Why? I mix and match Gnome/KDE apps. Why not? Got plenty of disk
space.
> May I add that lightwight Linux editors are by far superior to Wordpad and
> Notepad? Colleagues of mine use these to edit LaTeX and I cannot begin to
> describe how many difficulties they have.
NotePad is crap for anything longer than one screen shot.
> animate -delay 1000 *
Cool.
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