Mousepad

[Jari Rahkonen]

Nick Schermer kirjoitti:
> 2008/2/22, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:
>> 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.
> 
> But what if mousepad would be way better then anjuta? Then what ^_^.
> Anyway, it's still far away and like i said, i'll keep mousepad as
> fast as possible, so no worries.
> 
> Nick

You're free to do as you will of course, but it seems a simple and light
gtk-based text editor is much harder to find nowadays than a good code
editor with syntax highlighting. Speed is not a good argument here, as
scite already starts as fast as mousepad for me, and geany isn't much
slower either. Don't know about the rest.

Is there something you find so wrong in the existing code editors that
you feel the need to virtually start from scratch on a new one, or is
this simply something you're interested in hacking on? If it's the
latter, I wish you good luck and hope you have fun with it, but please
make it a new project instead. Adding all those features might not make
the editor much slower, but it would definitely make it less simple.


- Jari