Oneiric and old/new apps

[Tom Bell]

On 10/20/2011 2:54 AM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> On my fresh clean install of Oneiric I noticed that one of my most used
> apps is no longer available :-( Quanta Plus.
> I tried Bluefish but couldn't get it to wrap text lines without it
> joining the html stuff all together - grrr.
> So, since I like to hand code stuff without the editor 'helping' me, I
> started to use Kate (I have always used Kate for my text editing needs)
> - wow, it's great - does everything I need without any overheads and
> needless toolbars and fancy icons getting in the way.
> 
> Nigel
> 
Yes, Nigel,
I use Kate for my programming needs in C++.  I can open multiple files
at once in Kate and it shows the list on the left hand side.  When any
file has been changed and not saved a the icon showing is a 3 1/2"
diskette.  So when I am ready to compile, I just look at all the files
there and I can see instantly if all changes in all the files have been
saved.
There are some other features that are nice.  Unlike an IDE, you can
save changes, then compile and if you don't like what you did you
can hit undo until all the changes are undone to the point you want.
That is after you saved the changes for the compile.  I don't know of
any IDE that does that.
See what else you can learn from it.  There are many surprising features!

Tom
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