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You laugh, but there is nothing as good as old Notepad on Linux. Every single built-in "basic" text editor of every single distro comes with syntax highlightin
by AlienRobot 2y ago
You laugh, but there is nothing as good as old Notepad on Linux.
Every single built-in "basic" text editor of every single distro comes with syntax highlighting, line numbers, tabs, etc.
I just want a rectangle to type text into.
Notepad is turning into what Linux text editors already are: too complicated.
- skydhash 2y agoWhat about Ed, the standard text editor?
- AlienRobot 2y agoThat's a terminal program. I only consider graphical applications to be applications.
- skydhash 2y agoI think the basic text widget of all the toolkit support text attributes (color, styles,…) and as the solutions for syntax highlighting and other stuff existed already, it was not a big stretch to add them instead of having two editors (the first user was the programmer)
- AlienRobot 2y agoAh, I guess that's the problem then! The first user shouldn't be the programmer :-)
- Riverheart 2y agoI’ve always been satisfied with Leafpad as a Notepad equivalent. No fluff, just a rectangle for dumping text.
- akimbostrawman 2y agoGNOME text editor is just that.