From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 10 15:25:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.simrad.no (mail.simrad.no [193.69.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6691737B407 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent somewhere. To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.8 June 18, 2001 Message-ID: From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:26:28 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on S_INET01/S_EXT(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 11.06.2002 00:26:37 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have spent a large part of my day trying various gui editors, trying to find one that will actually work the way it should. I have been using gnotepad+, but it crashes too much, so I changed to bluefish, but it also is quite unstable. Today I installed glimmer, cooledit, peacock and screem. All from the ports. All I really want is an editor that will copy/paste/undo/redo, search/replace, syntax highlight for html/php, keep the prefences from one session to the next, I don't need wizards and icons and other wizbang things, just a stable app that I can leave running all day if necessary, come back to it and it will still be running waiting patiently for me to do some more editing. If I remember correctly, kwrite, or kadvanced editor, was pretty good, but since it can only be installed as part of kde, not seperately at all, I don't have it. (I tried to install KDE 2 and KDE3 both from the ports but they both failed, oh well, I don't care for it anyway). Glimmer - I adjust the preferences to my liking, but the program will not save them from one session to the next, whether I start it as user or root, doesn't matter. Cooledit - I highlight a section of text and press the delete key and only one letter gets deleted, not the whole section that is highlighted. Screem - the image wizard doesn't work, the link wizard doesn't work, the color wizard doesn't work, the mail wizard doesn't work. The open file icon doesn't work. When the file is opened from menu file/open the text is all blue and black, no syntax highlighting, even though it is configured to do syntax highlighting. Peacock - no syntax highlighting (may not be implemented, but I don't know because the preferences also is not implemented). Also no undo function, this alone makes it unusable. Bluefish I like, but as mentioned above, it is just too unstable. I can put up with it by saving my work every minute or two, just in case. It does have a lot of features, icons, that I never use, but that's no big deal. There's a windoze app called HTML-Edit by Chami, if that was available on BSD I'd be in heaven. :-) Supposedly it works via wine, but not very stable, and quite slow, I've tried it. Anyway, I just had to get this off my mind, vent a little, if you read this far, thanks for listening. I don't expect any responses or help or anything, I just gotta let loose, I'm alone here in a NT environment trying to get as much use as I can from my FreeBSD box, or I may loose it. That'd be a drag. Regards, -- Chip Wiegand Computer Services Simrad, Inc www.simradusa.com chip.wiegand@simrad.com "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 (They why do I have 9? Somebody help me!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message