Consider a New Text Program For Puppy

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Consider a New Text Program For Puppy

#1 Post by zandoval »

Posting this here because puppy users are most friendly and open minded - I have been useing a windows program called MetaPad under wine on my Kanotix computer - It is a superior text program that the developer has considered posting for open source - At 90 KB it is a wonder doing many editing functions that are only found in high level word processors - Could a linux compatable version be developed with the same functions capable of running in Puppy - Someone should check it out - Even running under wine it appears to be clean and fast.

http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
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#2 Post by Lobster »

Why not use the high level WP in Puppy (Abiword) and output as txt. That would be clean and fast. We also have leafpad and Beaver. Ted available as a pupgets. There are also text editors available as dotpups.

I am sure metapad is very good - I remember installing it and never using it on Windows - probably because it crashed. OK maybe not that good. In fact practically every text editor I ever used on Windows eventually froze or crashed except notepad - why MS has wisely never changed the code too much.. The truth is there is probably not that much incentive to bring over a text editor. Linux has plenty. Hoewever if there is a facility you require not met in the existing text editors then maybe we will have to reconsider.

:) Hope you will continue to suggest programs. I liked Kanotix. May have it still on a HD somewhere.

In Puppy I would suggest that for most users leafpad is a better default than Beaver but that is another issue . . . 8)
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#3 Post by Pizzasgood »

I used to prefer leafpad, but then I noticed that once in a while it would glitch up and not read my files correctly. This was mostly on the vfat partition, so I don't know if that had anything to do with it. The strange thing was that closing it and starting it didn't help. But when I loaded them into beaver they worked just fine.

Beaver also has tabs, and it comes with highlighting, both of which are good for developing software. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't open a new document on startup.

As for windows text editors, I haven't used many, but my favorite was Context. One feature I especially like is the ability to select vertically. Like how you can drag to select in rox or graphic editors. That came in handy because I was working with tilemaps stored in text files for my game engine. They look something like this

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00100A0050C2054
0D002005B60410A
2040040B01023E8
00240060136500A
7056580040070F1
And that's just for a 5x5 tile square on a single layer. There were four layers the last time I worked on it. So being able to copy blocks rather than wordwrapped sections was pretty nice.
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#4 Post by rarsa »

I use Beaver and leafpad interchangeably, and I do not like either too much.

Baver:
- I has syntax highlighting but it's buggy
- The UI is cumbersome and non standard. (Ctrl-F does not start search, for example).
- It's slooooooow searching. I don't know why it needs to scroll the document in screen while searching.
- It does not respect indentation even when the option is selected.
- You cannot indent/unindent blocks.
- When switching back from another tab or other app, the cursor is not where you left it.

Leafpad
- Lacks syntax highlighting
- Does not have tabbed editing

Actually, I can live with those shortcommings knowing that size is the tradeof, I would love to have macro capabilities in either.

In windows I use TextPad,
- Block copy
- Command execution (I've actually created an IDE for Java within the editor, I also create pyton scripts and execute them from within the editand compile from within the editor)
- Macro recording for repetitive tasks
- Binary viewing
- Spelling.
- Sorting
- etc etc
(all features here : http://www.textpad.com/products/textpad/features.html )

I really wish I had something similar for Linux. If you know about it, please let me know.

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#5 Post by Leon »

I really wish I had something similar for Linux. If you know about it, please let me know.
NEdit
http://www.nedit.org/

Features:
http://www.nedit.org/features.php

Download NEdit executable and documentation:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nedi ... z?download

NEdit is one single file, 2 MB, it works in Puppy 1.0.6.

It's worth to try.

For writing and simple text editing I prefer Leafpad and I think it should stay in Puppy especialy because its character coding feature.

Edit:
I noticed that GuestToo made dotpup for NEdit 5.5:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=5821#5821

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#6 Post by Alucard_the_dex »

I dunno much about Linux text editors and downloaded um all to test um out. So far i like tea And textmaker the most. Does anyone have any opinions about um?
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#7 Post by rarsa »

Leon wrote:
I really wish I had something similar for Linux. If you know about it, please let me know.
NEdit
http://www.nedit.org/
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I think that I had tried that before and didn't like it.

Now that I've learned to use it and configured it correctly, it seems to be what I had in mind.

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#8 Post by BarryK »

I really wish I had something similar for Linux. If you know about it, please let me know.
There's also "Geany".
I've compiled v0.3 and intend for it to be a PupGet in 1.0.7.
It's aimed at programmers, the executable is 853K.

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#9 Post by Guest »

I use Beaver for coding, Composer for html and OO swriter for word processing in Chubby 1.0.4.

Why?

Because they are there and they do what I want them to do.

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