Re: text editing in ubuntu

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 03:10 +0100, steve wrote:
hi all,

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


Thank you.

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

I took the Cortez approach and burned all my ships, ditched windows all
togother. Now I just keep windows around in a virtual machine for the
occasional need with a client. It took a lot less effort to come up to
speed than I expected. :)

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.

Out of the box gedit will suit you as recommended. For cli + gui
options then look at

sudo apt-get install vim-full vim-gnome

which will allow you to work in either environment without learning a
lot of separate progs.

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'

His feature list, http://www.rimarts.co.jp/dana.htm, seems largly doable
in the editors being recommended.

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?

Did you try the various Edit->Preferences or View->Highlight options?
To help keep your place?


i tried editing the text file in a kmail window and it would not wrap.

I use evolution. A friend uses Thunderbird.

I have not had email editing issues on neither AspireOne w/ eeebuntu or
Acer Aspire 7520 with Jaunty Ubuntu.

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


gnome or kde, choose one, save yourself a headache.

could any one recommend a fairly advance means of editing text that doesn't
involve an immense learning curve,

I found that the editors all seem to follow similar conventions and made
it easy to move from one to the other in their most basic editing form.
The granular control came from reading and practice.

never mind drag and drop, but visual word
wrap would be good.

all tips gratefully received.

As for the HTML editor. If you want just a code editor then any of the
text editors will do a great job. For web design, go to
Applications->add/remove or System->Administration->synaptic package
manager and do a search. Their are a number of programs available.
WYSIWYG editors are available as well. Komposer, or the Composer
function in Seamonkey suited me well for simple webpage development.


steve

maschino maschino yello


Hope this gave you some ideas and was helpful.

--
Fred R.
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like Linux - simple; if you are fighting it, you are doing
something wrong."



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