text editing in ubuntu

[Tony Baldwin]

steve wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
> 
>>> steve wrote:
>>>> 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
> 
> hi Rashkae
> 
> first let thank everyone else their for their excellent suggestions. i'm 
> responding to your message because i think you have helped me realize what 
> may be occuring with regard to the loss of focus issue and other problems.
> 
> i'm running ubuntu netbook remix 9.01 with desktop enhancement features 
> turned on, almost defintely a mistake. screen real-estate is a real issue 
> with a netbook. evolution is not really usable on a 1024x600 screen - too 
> much space taken up by unnecessary grey borders, not enough space for the 
> windows that matter, like message list and message content. thats why i'm 
> using kmail at the moment.
> 
> i thought i'd uninstall evolution but when i tried it synaptic said it would 
> need to uninstall ubuntu netbook remix too! i now realize that this means 
> i'd lose the ability to click on configuration dialogs in order to access 
> those parts of those dialog which would be off-screen on a 1024x600 display. 
> i got fed up with that system anyway and solved it by rotating my screen by 
> 90 degrees thus avoiding the off-screen tab and space-bar fandango because 
> mouse clicks just switch from top of dialog to bottom of dialog. i'm sure 
> i'm not the only one having these problems. i suspect that the netbook remix 
> is stealing focus innappropriately on occasion. if anyone thinks this is 
> nonsense please chime in.
> 

I have an everex cloudbook with hardy herron on it (OEM).
I removed gnome, and other bloat, use ion3, use mutt for e-mail, and it 
works well.

One invaluable tidbit to know when using these little thingies is that 
alt-leftmouseclick on a window will allow you to move the window without 
accessing the window decoration bar when using a gui DE.  Just grab the 
window anywhere with the alt-leftmousebutton, and you can move the 
window around.
Since I mostly use terminal apps and ion3 (tabbed/tiling wm), I don't 
use this feature now, but when I first got the little cloudbook, it was 
invaluable.  Mousing around on that tiny screen with the little mousepad 
thingy was just too annoying for me, so I eventually configured it so I 
can do 99% of anything I need without ever touching the mouse (thus ion3 
and mostly terminal apps).  I realize that such a configuration would 
not be useful to the vast majority of people buying these little 
machines, but it works great for me.
I mostly got the thing just to have remote access to e-mail and my main 
box in my office, and then ended up getting an LG Env with e-mail 
access, anyway, so I haven't used the cloudbook much lately, but it's a 
cute little machine.

/tony

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