Where have all the good text editors gone? (SUSE excursion)
Distro shock must be setting in.
The only halfway decent GUI text editor I'm seeing in the SUSE repos is the default, Gedit. Gedit has its uses, but I'm used to the flexibility and features of medit, or Scite, or a half-dozen other programmer's/text editors. Gedit follows GNOME's apparent feature-set policy too closely: Keep It Simple (for the) Stupids. Sure, it has syntax highlighting, tabs, and date/time insertion; but the color theme isn't changeable, search/replace is too limited, can't insert other files or things, and menu buttons aren't editable. I swear...the repos only had several (pretty good) console text editors, fucking KDE's proffering (which is decent, but requires installing half of KDE!), and a couple of Notepad clones. *scoffscoff*
Yeah, the repos show their own preference. The text editor selection ain't all that, but I found a plethora of music composers and synthesizers. Cool!
Oh, and I found a TUI tool for NetworkManager--cnetworkmanager. The yast method was working fine (connecting to the same network every time, as I haven't traveled with this laptop yet), until I suspended or hibernated and had some trouble re-establishing connection; couldn't get it to ping, though I had an IP from the right ESSID, oddly unassociated on any access point. Huh. Anyway, it was took too long to click up through System>Yast>Network Devices>Atheros and rerun the whole configuration again, only to not get a ping. NetworkManager provides a convenient desktop applet for speedy configuration and constant monitoring.