mousepad future

[Erik Harrison]

On 1/24/07, Oblio <apa.chioara at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :) ).

Nedit continues to be maintained to this day, although development is
slow, CVS continues to be updated.

>
> Don't try to turn Mousepad in a programmers' editor.

I have no intention of doing so.

 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...
>

I am well aware of that. My only intention is to see what people use
Mousepad for. It never helps to be wholly ignorant of your users.


> 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.
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Erik

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