text editing in ubuntu

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Tue, August 4, 2009 13:32, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> steve wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> i've been lurking for a while. and i'm quite impressed by how helpful
>> you
>> all are.
>>
>> i've been double booting linux with windows for many years. i went with
>> slackware for a long time, being a minimalist at heart. i suffered
>> unsupported hardware and lack of sympathetic user groups [those were the
>> days] because it was not windows and i'm a 'help someone if you can'
>> kind of
>> guy. however, i have certain requirements and litle time [don't want to
>> go
>> into that now - but i'm not an ict pro, by any means].
>>
>> i love linux and i've always wanted to ditch windows completely but have
>> never found a satisfactoty means of editing text, or of editing text in
>> email. i also need a good html editor. [looking at screem at the
>> moment]. in
>> an ideal world i'd learn to use cli apps or emacs. i'd also like to win
>> the
>> lottery, but it ain't gonna happen. even though a pigeon shit on my head
>> the
>> other day.
>>
>> i've persevered with windows largely due to the efforts of a japanese
>> programmer, tomohiro norimatsu, the author of the text editor 'dana' and
>> the
>> email client 'rebecca', both fully featured but more importantly both
>> bulletproof, as it were. many users of those progs have begged him to
>> produce linux versions of those apps to no avail.
>>
>> tonight i tried to do the simplest of things, one would have thought. i
>> tried to edit a text file with gedit. after a few operations i lost
>> focus on
>> the editing window  the 'i-beam cursor was was impotent. save file,
>> reopen,
>> here we go again. a few operations and the i-beam is taunting me. and
>> there
>> is no evidence of wordwrap whatsoever. what gives?
>>
>> i tried editing the text file in a kmail window and it would not wrap.
>> again
>> the edit window lost focus after a few operations. strange though it may
>> seem, this email has worked perfectly. hang on, saving to outbox and re-
>> editing, wordwrap is cludgy. could there be a simple explanation?
>>
>> ubuntu netbook remix on samsung nc10
>> kate installed but likewise dysfunctional
>> kate uninstalled - nothing changes
>>
>> could any one recommend a fairly advance means of editing text that
>> doesn't
>> involve an immense learning curve, never mind drag and drop, but visual
>> word
>> wrap would be good.
>>
>> all tips gratefully received.
>>
>> steve
>>
>> maschino maschino yello
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 	Well your sure into Ubuntu but I didn't get what version. I haveGedit
> on Hardy, 8.11 and 9.04 and it is the perfect plain ascii editor. I
> think your problems are due to your netbook. Try it all on a real laptop
> or computer.
>
> 	Also choose to learn gnome or kubuntu but not both. There are major
> differences.

If you get gedit to work, it should work, then a nice way to clarify line
wrap is to enable current line highlighting in preferences in gedit.
I have attached a ping, but don't know if it goes through to the list.

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