On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Kent A. Reed <kentallanr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 11/13/2013 9:14 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > >> On 11/13/13 20:01, Jeff Pollard wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I never found a GUI editor available on the BBB Machinekit system >>> through the desktop (doesn't mean it's not there somewhere). >>> <...> >>> >> Yeah, there might not be one. By default, I install the bare minimum to >> get LinuxCNC up and running (I don't even install vim, just the plain vi >> pulled in by the default Debian install).t I figured there might be >> something in the file browser or elsewhere, but it wouldn't shock me if >> there's not. >> >> I'll have to see if I can find a light-weight editor to add to the >> package list... >> >> -- >> Charles >> > > Sorry, my BBB is in service at the moment, but I poked around a virtual > Debian 7.1 (Wheezy) system on which I had previously installed enough > packages to build LinuxCNC. > > From the Debian repo, I installed a number of 'lightweight' gui-based > editors via the usual 'sudo apt-get install xxx'. > > - cream > - geany > - lpe <- different from the rest: a full-page terminal-based editor > - nedit > - x2 > > I'm too lazy to install each to a virgin Debian install just to find out > how much filespace gets used once all the dependencies are loaded. From a > baseline du -ks = 219068, I ended up with du -ks=219204 after installing > all five. > > The smallest executables were lpe (51.8KB) and xe (51.6KB). The largest > were geany (2.36MB) and cream (2.23MB after tracing through a script and > some links). The middling one is nedit (1.19MB). > > I'm trying to post screen captures of each to a public site so y'all can > take a look. I know which I like but I wouldn't think of recommending an > editor to anyone. There's no accounting for taste:-) > Sorry but I got called away for most of the day. I've posted screen captures of the five editors I mentioned at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/1xcg9f3cmrn91/EditorScreenCaps Many of them have features of interest to programmers. Some automatically display line numbers and I enabled that feature for another. And for dave, I use vi/vim for many tasks because it is omnipresent, but the OP was asking about GUI-based editors. There's alway gvim aka vim-gnome but it reminds me of the old saw about motorcycles with sidecars: they combine the disadvantages of motorcycles and cars with none of the advantages of either. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
