Notepad replacement.

cuban · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 448 Location: Houston, TX

All,

Not sure if this is the right forum to post in. I apologize in advance if it is not.

I am looking for a notepad replacement. Something I can quickly jot down notes in and save them. Preferably not KDE based (Kwrite bites IMHO)

My friend has an application for Mac that does this, and actually saves each thing he jots down. Very useful as I sometimes don't save things (lazy) and it'd be nice to be able to reference it.

Thanks in avance,
Daniel

Anderas · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 77

I find gedit to be a very fast editor to note things down with, while being very powerfull as well for other purposes.

ghotirsd · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 30 Location: San Diego,CA

xedit. it's as simple as notepad and is compiled along with X.

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

nedit is my personal favorite, and it starts cosiderably faster than gedit (I noticed when I tested gnome 2.4)

goalie31 · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Switzerland

I use SciTE

Arker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 205

Notepad runs well in Wine... lol :roll:

aLEczapKA · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 192

gvim

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zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

xterm + nano

emacs [Wait... That is the kitchen sink]

gedit

shm · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:43 pm Post subject:

you could try kjots-- it's kedit based not kwrite based. and it's a note taking app

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Verteron · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 189

If you're after something GTK based I'd suggest gedit or gvim.

nephros · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:54 pm Post subject:

Another vote for nedit.
Windows-like keybindings as notepad, syntax highlighting, boxed text selection, small, fast. A bit ugly though.

I know it sounds compilcated and a lot of work, but learning another editor like (g)vim, (x)emacs or joe is really worth it. You will almost never look back. Or further :twisted:

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M104 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:00 pm Post subject:

Another vote for kjots.

The poster is looking for a note keeping program, not a source code editor!
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slarti` · Retired Dev Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 376 Location: UK

YA vote for KJots.

If you really wanted that advanced editor... Kate or vim depending if you want console or graphical or not

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mackstann · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 50 Location: Iowa, US

vim for tiny notes, vim for many thousand line source files.

shm · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject:

kjots for tiny notes, and vim for big source files

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OdinsDream · Veteran Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 1057

I'll throw in my obligatory recommendation for JEdit, my most favorite text editor to date.
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shm · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 4:04 am Post subject:

Just saw this.. might be good for notetaking

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Curious · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 4:57 am Post subject:

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cuban · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 448 Location: Houston, TX

I can't seem to find kjots anywhere. Where can I get it? It's not in portage, nor can I find a website for it on google.

theBlackDragon · l33t Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Belgium

Am I the only one who uses nano to scrabble little notes down?

It's (very) simple, and bloody fast, and you already have it installed anyway...
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shm · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:27 pm Post subject:

Pythonhead · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:56 pm Post subject:

ScitE - Probably loads faster than any GUI editor mentioned here, small memory footprint, and works in Linux, Windows, OS X so you have a common editor. (It uses either GTK+ 1 or 2 )

trouby · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 168

Scite, and as a replacement for notepad, it's the closest one, but more advanced

Lews_Therin · l33t Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 657 Location: Banned

Well, for just a pure text editor with a GUI rather than command line, kedit is good. It's basically notepad, but has icons on it's bar like Word.

neuromancer · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 15 Location: UK

JEdit for coding however it's extremely slow so probably not for you

As for notes nedit has to get my vote - dont let the motif style put you off. Used it solidly until I got a machine beefy enough to start JEdit in under 1/2 hour.