mousepad future

[Oblio]

And nedit uses motif (lesstif, whatever), and is probably not very well
maintained or internationalized, localized. And it doesn't integrate  
(except,
of course, in CDE :) ).

Don't try to turn Mousepad in a programmers' editor. It's name, and origins
(coming from Leafpad, and Notepad), are quite a good indication of its
purpose - somewhere to copy/paste text quickly, make minor edits, see
text files quickly without the console - a pad...

Not to mention that turning it into a programmers' editor would get it  
creamed
by the likes of Scite, Gvim, or any other older programmers' editor.

It's good as it is - Leafpad with printing capabilities...

My 2 cents (put them in a cookie jar :P)

> My opinion about mousepad is that it should be like it is now. The
> idea behind mousepad is that it should be a VERY SIMPLE and LIGHTWEIGHT
> editor (in fact, I think it is not so lightweight)
>
> If users want a lightweight texteditor with more functionalities, they
> can use nedit.
>
> In fact, nedit uses much less memory (5.5Mb) than mousepad (8.5Mb) and
> is (and starts) as fast as it. Furthermore, nedit has much more
> functionalities than mousepad (tabs, sintax highlight, macros, etc). The
> only difference is that mousepad is more eye candy.