Oh, I should have mentioned that the general design goal was / is to build a combination of askSam and ZyIndex (old dos / Window programs) for LInux.
On Thursday, September 03, 2020 04:44:14 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, September 03, 2020 06:50:36 AM Joe wrote: > > I've finally decided I have to keep a diary. > > > > In Debian are RoboJournal and Lifeograph. > > > > Neither of them actually function, at least in sid. Does anyone have any > > other ideas, apart from phpMyAdmin or Mysql Workbench? > > I've seen the other responses, I just want to throw in my 20 mils: > > I use (to oversimplify) almost plain text files with multiple records in > each file. Thus I can have a file named diary (or named something else) > and just go to that file and start typing. I can add the record separator > (and a title / subject, date stamp, and any other meta data I want after > (or before) I enter the text of the data. > > In its current iteration (the 4th by one method of counting) it uses mbox > files with mbox multiline mail headers as the record separator (and to > store the meta data). > > I can search and modify records in the plain text file, I can also read the > files in an email client, and my intent is to index them (and and an > indexed search (using recoll). (ATM, I'm not actually using recoll, I set > it up some time ago as a "proof of concept" but when I migrated to the > next computer I didn't bring it along. > > I currently mainly use kate as an editor, with syntax highlighting and > folding to make it easier to read / access. > > Although I'd like to release it some day, it is not yet in the state I'd > like to have it in if / when released. > > If anybody wants more details to try it out for themselves, or to work on > it, let me know. > > The current desire of my work is to migrate to a Scintilla based editor as > that will give me a wider choice of possible editors, and deal with some > bugs in the kate implementation (I'd call them kate bugs, but, > conceivably, they'd say they fixed the bug (after something like 10 years) > -- I made a half-hearted attempt to adjust my syntax highlighter after > they claimed the bug was fixed, but it didn't seem to work -- I suspect > they did something to undo the fix ;-) > > I'd like to get the syntax highligher / folder for Scintilla written in > C++, but C++ is a major stumbling block for me. ;-)