On Wednesday 06 September 2017 13:39:01 deloptes wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > FWIW, I also thought that you lost 6 months of work based on what > > you wrote initially. Happy to hear that the damage is much less. But > > even that can be very frustrating, right? > > > > Along with the backups, may I suggest you to store all your work in > > version control such as git so that even if the editor crashes, you > > can recover everything up until the last commit. > > I use "ne" which luckily is part of the debian package repo. Great for > work in console. > > For the GUI ... well we stayed with KDE3 on purpose - kate is great. > I gave up on the kde breakage that never gets fixed by kde, and on this boxen, and one of my more well-endowed cnc boxes its TDE r14.0.0.x all the way down, so I am still running kmail 1.9, its had at least 99% of all the kde bugs swatted. Its a fork of kde 3.5.
> I had same experience with GTK gedit & friends 14y ago ... since then > I don't want to hear about gnome or whatever alike ... but well, there > are allways exceptions - like gimp. Which changes fast enough I have to learn it all over again everytime I need to use it. Like adding captions and arrows, last upgrade uses a 1 pt font for text and I had a heck of a time blowing it up to a usable size. I think there is an excedrin headache number for that. Has to be... :) > regards Thanks kamaraju kusumanchi. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
