Richard Owlett wrote:
Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 05:29:58 -0600,
Richard Owlett<rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble
the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except
some items may be a short paragraph or two long.
I did a web search for text editors with an auto-indent feature.
The only one I recognized was Leafpad. But I couldn't find appropriate
documentation or "howto". Where would I find it?
Any other suggestions for a basic text editor in the Debian repository
with an auto-indent feature. I'm not interested in a full blown word
processor.
TIA
It seems leafpad is obsolete and not maintained any longer (It is only
available in Debian Stretch).
If you could try something else, I would try mousepad (which actually
is a fork of leafpad).
https://packages.debian.org/mousepad
https://docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/start
That page suggests it's what I'm looking for.
I attempted to install it on my old machine [has a large external
monitor] but got a "temporary connection failure" message.
Will try it again this afternoon.
Thanks
I just tried it on both of my machines.
It lacks ability to set the right margin. I want to insert a paragraph
such that the effective LEFT margin [when line wraps at RIGHT margin] is
the indent level.
If you would be ready to try something new and are not afraid of
massive amount of settings (and thereby possibilities) but still
GTK-based, I would try SciTE.
https://packages.debian.org/scite
(Yes, I am biased regarding SciTE, since I'm one of the Debian package
maintainers).
-- Andreas Rönnquist
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