And, just out of interest, there is a fork from Bluefish (I use it for hand coding sites that have php / xhtml / mysql) called https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/raring/winefish/
Has anyone got experience with this? Regards, Phill. On 20 June 2013 23:24, Patrick Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Probably not for someone using Linux itself. But if there are people > using it in a Virtual Machine under Windows (for whatever reason), it > would work decently enough. Or if you want a version that does the > syntax highlighting, which some of the text editors don't provide (I'm > looking at you, leafpad :) ), then it's worth the trouble. > > Plus, it gives us a chance to experience how to install and run > applications through Wine (for those who really haven't tried it). > > In truth, I forgot about gedit and kate having the syntax highlighting > (and I wasn't sure how well it highlights our customized LaTeX syntax). > And when I opened the tex files in leafpad, it didn't have the > capability (that I saw). > > Have a great day.:) > Patrick. > > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 17:06 -0500, Kevin Godby wrote: > > Hello, Patrick. > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Patrick Dickey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > In a couple of threads, people were discussing GUI-based editors for > tex > > > files. If you've got Wine installed, you can install Notepad ++ and it > > > supports LaTeX highlighting. The only issue you might run into is > > > whether it uses the same carriage returns (Unix or DOS) as the rest of > > > the manual (but I honestly don't think that's an issue). > > > > > > If you want to check it out, you can find it at > > > http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ > > > > Is there a benefit to using Notepad++ versus a Linux-based text editor > > or LaTeX IDE? > > > > (It just seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to edit a > > text file.) > > > > —Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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