Xfce Text Editor

[Bernhard Walle]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> I have been fiddling with the Leafpad text editor, and now have a
> version for Xfce. Other than some minor code cleanups, the 0.0.5
> version has two features over the last release of Leafpad
> 
> * No hardcoded config file location, and location is now XDG compliant
> * Printing support
[...]

I tried out the text editor very quickly. Let me make a few comments.

Basically, I like the idea of a text editor for Xfce. But it should stay 
simple, somethink like Notepad is on MS Windows (well, not *that* simple 
;-)). So: No Macro Language or Plugin API or somethink like that. I 
think even syntax highlighting should not be in a simple text editor. 
There are good text editors for Linux, like gvim, Emacs, NEdit or jEdit. 
There are IDEs like Anjuta or KDevelop.

When Xfce has an text editor, I use it for tasks like reading text files 
(such as "less" on console) and writing a few notes. It should start 
quickly and it should be easy to handle. That's it. :-)


Regards,
Bernhard

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