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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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 . . .
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 . . .
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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
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.
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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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.
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.
NEditI really wish I had something similar for Linux. If you know about it, please let me know.
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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That's It!Leon wrote:NEditI really wish I had something similar for Linux. If you know about it, please let me know.
http://www.nedit.org/
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.