Re: text editing in ubuntu

On Tue, August 4, 2009 13:32, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
steve wrote:
hi all,

i've been lurking for a while. and i'm quite impressed by how helpful
you
all are.

i've been double booting linux with windows for many years. i went with
slackware for a long time, being a minimalist at heart. i suffered
unsupported hardware and lack of sympathetic user groups [those were the
days] because it was not windows and i'm a 'help someone if you can'
kind of
guy. however, i have certain requirements and litle time [don't want to
go
into that now - but i'm not an ict pro, by any means].

i love linux and i've always wanted to ditch windows completely but have
never found a satisfactoty means of editing text, or of editing text in
email. i also need a good html editor. [looking at screem at the
moment]. in
an ideal world i'd learn to use cli apps or emacs. i'd also like to win
the
lottery, but it ain't gonna happen. even though a pigeon shit on my head
the
other day.

i've persevered with windows largely due to the efforts of a japanese
programmer, tomohiro norimatsu, the author of the text editor 'dana' and
the
email client 'rebecca', both fully featured but more importantly both
bulletproof, as it were. many users of those progs have begged him to
produce linux versions of those apps to no avail.

tonight i tried to do the simplest of things, one would have thought. i
tried to edit a text file with gedit. after a few operations i lost
focus on
the editing window the 'i-beam cursor was was impotent. save file,
reopen,
here we go again. a few operations and the i-beam is taunting me. and
there
is no evidence of wordwrap whatsoever. what gives?

i tried editing the text file in a kmail window and it would not wrap.
again
the edit window lost focus after a few operations. strange though it may
seem, this email has worked perfectly. hang on, saving to outbox and re-
editing, wordwrap is cludgy. could there be a simple explanation?

ubuntu netbook remix on samsung nc10
kate installed but likewise dysfunctional
kate uninstalled - nothing changes

could any one recommend a fairly advance means of editing text that
doesn't
involve an immense learning curve, never mind drag and drop, but visual
word
wrap would be good.

all tips gratefully received.

steve

maschino maschino yello




Well your sure into Ubuntu but I didn't get what version. I haveGedit
on Hardy, 8.11 and 9.04 and it is the perfect plain ascii editor. I
think your problems are due to your netbook. Try it all on a real laptop
or computer.

Also choose to learn gnome or kubuntu but not both. There are major
differences.

If you get gedit to work, it should work, then a nice way to clarify line
wrap is to enable current line highlighting in preferences in gedit.
I have attached a ping, but don't know if it goes through to the list.

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