Mousepad

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Feb 22 20:26:05 CET 2008


Erik Harrison wrote:

> Nick, I of course defer to your judgment, but after thinking about it
> long and hard syntax highlighting always seemed to be the slippery
> slope for mousepad. The point at which it goes from being a fast way
> to edit config files and open READMEs to an IDE that can't compete
> with dedicated pieces of software or very flexible texteditors. Down
> that path lies Gedit.

Hear, hear.  If I want syntax highlighting, I'll open it up in anjuta. 
If I'm on console I'll use nano with color support, or, hell, if I don't 
need to edit, 'less' with $LESSOPEN set to something useful that does 
syntax highlighting.  Please don't break mousepad.

	-brian





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