Tea
So, I finally got around to upgrading Koko to Squeeze (Debian 6.0) last night.
This morning, I opened up TEA (Text Editor Advanced) to start working through a programming exercise, and I was shocked at how much the interface had changed.
When you resize the window, the status pane resizes, but the main pane does not.
When you resize the main pane, if you're on a settings tab, the font resizes.
When you drag a file's tab, it moves, which would be an improvement over the previous version, except that the file handler doesn't follow. If your file was on the fifth tab, and you move it to the third position, Ctrl-S will save the file that was previously in the third position, while clicking on whatever is now in the fifth position will let you save the file now in the third position.
There's a TODO calendar, which would be nice except, I liked TEA when it was just a tabbed, suntax-highlighting text editor.
And that's just what I've discovered in the first ten minutes.
This is not comfortable for coding.
So, I think I'm going to need a new text editor. Any of you Linux geeks out there have a good suggestion? Prefer something that's not going to pull down every Gnome library in existence as dependencies, but if it has the functionality I used to enjoy in TEA, I'll live with the bloat.
It doesn't need syntax highlighting or bracket matching, though that would be nice to have, but it does need to have tabs and state saving (when I open it, it loads all the files I had open at the end of the previous session), and it should be a text editor, not an IDE.
Your thoughts?
This morning, I opened up TEA (Text Editor Advanced) to start working through a programming exercise, and I was shocked at how much the interface had changed.
When you resize the window, the status pane resizes, but the main pane does not.
When you resize the main pane, if you're on a settings tab, the font resizes.
When you drag a file's tab, it moves, which would be an improvement over the previous version, except that the file handler doesn't follow. If your file was on the fifth tab, and you move it to the third position, Ctrl-S will save the file that was previously in the third position, while clicking on whatever is now in the fifth position will let you save the file now in the third position.
There's a TODO calendar, which would be nice except, I liked TEA when it was just a tabbed, suntax-highlighting text editor.
And that's just what I've discovered in the first ten minutes.
This is not comfortable for coding.
So, I think I'm going to need a new text editor. Any of you Linux geeks out there have a good suggestion? Prefer something that's not going to pull down every Gnome library in existence as dependencies, but if it has the functionality I used to enjoy in TEA, I'll live with the bloat.
It doesn't need syntax highlighting or bracket matching, though that would be nice to have, but it does need to have tabs and state saving (when I open it, it loads all the files I had open at the end of the previous session), and it should be a text editor, not an IDE.
Your thoughts?