Hi,
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
I'm aware of the dozens of console editors (I use vim virtually everywhere), but need something small like gedit, without the bulk and complexity of libreoffice.
Thanks, Alex
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:03 AM Alex mysqlstudent@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
How about notepadqq?
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/notepadqq
Thanks, Richard
Gedit surely do have autosave capabilities. You can also try xed, which looks nearly exactly the same.
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:13 PM Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:03 AM Alex mysqlstudent@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
How about notepadqq?
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/notepadqq
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Hi,
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
I'm aware of the dozens of console editors (I use vim virtually everywhere), but need something small like gedit, without the bulk and complexity of libreoffice.
Thanks, Alex
There are also mousepad from the Xfce project and pluma from Mate, a fork of the old Gedit from Gnome 2.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, Alex wrote:
Hi,
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
I'm aware of the dozens of console editors (I use vim virtually everywhere), but need something small like gedit, without the bulk and complexity of libreoffice.
I'm intrigued by your problem of gedit crashing. My use of it never does.
My only frustration is that if I shutdown and forget to save something, when i reboot my computer other applications (firefox, libreoffice, etc) are restored to their previous sessions. Gedit is one that doesn't get restored; all I get is a fresh blank pane. I've learned to be careful here.
I use Xfce, and vi/vim. Fedora w XFCE is intalled on a Dell XPS 13 L322 and a Shuttle, both i7s.
fyi,
Max
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:46:38 +0100 David Dusanic ivanovnegro@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
I'm aware of the dozens of console editors (I use vim virtually everywhere), but need something small like gedit, without the bulk and complexity of libreoffice.
Thanks, Alex
There are also mousepad from the Xfce project and pluma from Mate, a fork of the old Gedit from Gnome 2.
Another option is leafpad.
Ranjan
Hi,
Alex wrote:
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
I'm aware of the dozens of console editors (I use vim virtually everywhere), but need something small like gedit, without the bulk and complexity of libreoffice.
Is gvim suitable (in the vim-X11 package)?
If you use vim most everywhere, having a gvim window open would seem like a most handy solution. It's not only "like vim, but graphical," it *is* vim, but graphical. :)
I use mousepad that comes with Xfce.
Nice and simple.
When I need more (which is often), I use geany.
On 2/25/19 10:02 PM, Alex wrote:
Hi,
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
I'm aware of the dozens of console editors (I use vim virtually everywhere), but need something small like gedit, without the bulk and complexity of libreoffice.
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Allegedly, on or about 25 February 2019, Alex sent:
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes.
Sounds like you're trying to solve the wrong problem.
If you provide more info about the crashing, you might be able to sort that out, instead.
Gedit surely do have autosave capabilities. You can also try xed, which looks nearly exactly the same.
Yes, thank you. I had actually forgotten about the autosave capabilities with gedit because it requires that you at least first save the document once, giving it a filename to autosave.
I've started to use notepadqq and it seems pretty good.
Allegedly, on or about 25 February 2019, Alex sent:
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes.
Sounds like you're trying to solve the wrong problem.
If you provide more info about the crashing, you might be able to sort that out, instead.
# abrt-cli list id dace5834449515d83ff471f0deb0f71cd1940853 reason: gedit killed by SIGABRT time: Sun 24 Feb 2019 01:53:19 PM EST cmdline: /usr/bin/gedit --gapplication-service package: 2:gedit-3.30.2-1.fc29 uid: 1000 (alex) count: 1 Directory: /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2019-02-24-13:53:19.406452-8861 Reported: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/8dcbff1f275e98888bd9b61...
It's apparently only a partial report because it was unable to prepare the environment properly, or something similar.
And this is just with gedit - at least once every 30 to 45 days of uptime, my desktop crashes arbitrarily. I suspend it every night, but sometimes it either doesn't resume properly or just crashes, although it doesn't happen as frequently as it used to with these later 4.x kernels.
It's also just not a wise idea to do work in an application without any type of crash support.
On 2/25/19 6:02 AM, Alex wrote:
Hi,
I have a fedora29 workstation and frequently need a lightweight editor to make notes, act as an interim cut buffer, and just briefly edit documents before posting them somewhere else.
The problem is that gedit crashes, or my desktop crashes, losing all the notes. Sometimes I have ten or so documents of differing degrees going at once, and when it crashes (like it just did again), I lose everything.
I need something with some kind of temporary autosave capability, like vim, but graphical.
I'm aware of the dozens of console editors (I use vim virtually everywhere), but need something small like gedit, without the bulk and complexity of libreoffice.
Thanks, Alex
Hi Alex,
I use leafpad a ton. But as fan as I know, it does not have an autosave capability. Leafpad does have CR+LF save capability for when I have to read something on a Windows comupter.
For programming I use geany. It might be overkill though. Geany works well over ssh X11 connection across the Internet.
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