Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

DeepDayze · 2019-06-30 22:32:52

johnraff wrote:

Mousepad's almost the same, and has a couple of improvements over leafpad, but it also - at least in Stretch - had a couple of annoyances that made me return to Leafpad. Handling of the clipboard was one, and I think the search function was less congenial... forget now.

Have you tried Buster's version of Mousepad?

johnraff · 2019-07-01 00:29:59

clusterF wrote:

Non gui but Cant beat good old nano as a fallback.

There's a built-in guified cli text editor in BL already - bl-cli-editor. If your "editor" alternative is set to nano, it will open x-terminal-editor with nano (likewise vim), so it behaves like a GUI editor. You can set it as your bl-editor alternative in menu>System>Edit Debian Alternatives if you want to play with it. Mime-types should then automatically open text files with bl-cli-editor.

PackRat · 2019-07-01 01:09:51

johnraff wrote:

clusterF wrote:
Non gui but Cant beat good old nano as a fallback.
There's a built-in guified cli text editor in BL already - bl-cli-editor. If your "editor" alternative is set to nano, it will open x-terminal-editor with nano (likewise vim), so it behaves like a GUI editor. You can set it as your bl-editor alternative in menu>System>Edit Debian Alternatives if you want to play with it. Mime-types should then automatically open text files with bl-cli-editor.

And with a bit of effort, a user can enable syntax highlighting in nano; if you like that sort of thing.

johnraff · 2019-07-01 01:25:50

^Thanks! I do find highlighting can make code more readable, though it's usually Geany for any big stuff. Nano's for the quick fixes, like when X won't start...

But, I now find Debian has all highlighting enabled already, via /etc/nanorc line 249:

include "/usr/share/nano/*.nanorc"

Last edited by johnraff (2019-07-01 01:36:37)

ozitraveller · 2019-07-01 01:40:38

I'm preparing for the next release, and have exchanged leafpad for mousepad. nano is a given as default. And geany otherwise.

PackRat · 2019-07-01 23:03:33

johnraff wrote:

^Thanks! I do find highlighting can make code more readable, though it's usually Geany for any big stuff. Nano's for the quick fixes, like when X won't start...
But, I now find Debian has all highlighting enabled already, via /etc/nanorc line 249:
include "/usr/share/nano/*.nanorc"

I just enabled that for ArchLabs; looks pretty good.

cog · 2019-07-02 07:16:27

It’s way to late for it but pluma can be made too look real good too.

(I’m a Vim freak)

clusterF · 2019-07-02 14:42:53

johnraff wrote:

clusterF wrote:
Non gui but Cant beat good old nano as a fallback.
There's a built-in guified cli text editor in BL already - bl-cli-editor. If your "editor" alternative is set to nano, it will open x-terminal-editor with nano (likewise vim), so it behaves like a GUI editor. You can set it as your bl-editor alternative in menu>System>Edit Debian Alternatives if you want to play with it. Mime-types should then automatically open text files with bl-cli-editor.

Nice, that is clever.

#21 2019-06-30 22:32:52

Re: Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

#22 2019-07-01 00:29:59

Re: Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

#23 2019-07-01 01:09:51

Re: Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

#24 2019-07-01 01:25:50

Re: Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

#25 2019-07-01 01:40:38

Re: Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

#26 2019-07-01 23:03:33

Re: Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

#27 2019-07-02 07:16:27

Re: Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

#28 2019-07-02 14:42:53

Re: Leafpad has been removed from sid and buster.

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