Re: Looking for an editor

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:31:28 +0100 (CET), January Weiner staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since your requirements obviously go past a simple editor (I'd
recommend nedit for that) try AbiWord.
Well, I tried it. Firstly, pasting / dragging from firefox doesn't
seem to work there. Secondly, within an hour work it crashed two
times :-)

Whoa. Abiword is supposed to be reasonably stable. The initial
requirements you specced (text + images, possibly fonts) made me think
that Mozilla Composer or possibly bluefish would work--tried those? OOO
seems a bit heavyweight for what you need, but I've had very few
problems with OOO besides its slow startup (aieee, feature creep.) I
dunno; I usually write HTML in vim if I need something fancier than
plain text. The non-WYSIWYGness of that approach may not work for you
if you're doing something complex or weird.

I have looked at zim. However, this is still not mature enough to be
usable...

I'd be worried about a program named "zim" trying to take over the world
with advanced alien technology, myself. HTH anyway,

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