Re: lightweight wordpad? (was Re: CVS commit: wip/godura)

[Chris Wareham <chriswareham%chriswareham.demon.co.uk@localhost>]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> Log Message:
>> Import new package: godura.
>>
>> Simple GTK2-based notepad text editor with file saving, copy and paste,
>> search, replace, undo and redo.
> 
> Does anyone know of any other very light-weight X11 or gtk2 (if you can 
> consider that "very" lightweight) text editors?
> 
> Or what about word processors that have simple features like Microsoft 
> WordPad such as changing font information and printing.
> 

Pathetic Writer (http://siag.nu/pw/) from SIAG Office may be what you're
looking for. It uses the Athena widget set (well, a 3D version of them),
but actually looks quite good. The "Pathetic" in the name is just the
guy who wrote it expressing his odd sense of humour.

> Abiword is too big. And I don't want Ted. gedit and kate have too many 
> dependencies. And xedit looks too old :) And evim (gvim -y) may have too 
> many features or difficult for beginners.
> 
> Or is there any gtk2 widget already for this?
> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
> 
> p.s. I use vi myself.
> 

Have you tried vile? It's supposed to be VI Like Emacs, which seems to
mean it can have multiple buffers open on the same screen. It can be run
in a console or with a graphical frontend.

Chris

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