tl; dr: It looks like "geany" works OK, but still seems like overkill.
Recently, a user was trying to use PiOS to do some simple web-cut-paste jobs, and did not find a simple notepad-on-windows-like editor in the PiOS. User was quite upset that the "Text Editor" option in the menus runs something called "mousepad", which almost works, but fails a basic requirement. Mousepad doesn't support changing the font size of the displayed text. There are options in mousepad to do it, but they don't work (try it). Being able to change the font size (i.e., make it bigger, so it is readable) is a very basic requirement in a GUI text editor.
I then did a web search on the topic and found a few interesting things:
1) gedit - which is the "standard" editor for the GNOME DE - does lots of interesting things, but does not have any options to change the font size. It seems like this is something that Linux editor designers just don't think is important. This seems to be common across several of the editors on the list.
2) There is something called "notepadqq", which looks interesting. However, it is not in the RPi repository. It is in Ubuntu (x86/64) repo. I wonder why it is not available for Rpi.
3) Eventually, I tried "geany" from the Rpi menu and it seems to work OK (user is happy with it), but is still overkill when all you want is a simple editor.
Recently, a user was trying to use PiOS to do some simple web-cut-paste jobs, and did not find a simple notepad-on-windows-like editor in the PiOS. User was quite upset that the "Text Editor" option in the menus runs something called "mousepad", which almost works, but fails a basic requirement. Mousepad doesn't support changing the font size of the displayed text. There are options in mousepad to do it, but they don't work (try it). Being able to change the font size (i.e., make it bigger, so it is readable) is a very basic requirement in a GUI text editor.
I then did a web search on the topic and found a few interesting things:
1) gedit - which is the "standard" editor for the GNOME DE - does lots of interesting things, but does not have any options to change the font size. It seems like this is something that Linux editor designers just don't think is important. This seems to be common across several of the editors on the list.
2) There is something called "notepadqq", which looks interesting. However, it is not in the RPi repository. It is in Ubuntu (x86/64) repo. I wonder why it is not available for Rpi.
3) Eventually, I tried "geany" from the Rpi menu and it seems to work OK (user is happy with it), but is still overkill when all you want is a simple editor.
Statistics: Posted by BigRedMailbox — Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:04 am