Hi, I used gedit frequently for note taking on a fedora27 system. The latest kernels have been quite unstable for me here (plug in a USB stick and the whole thing crashes, for example), taking down all my unsaved notes with it. Is there a simple, lightweight graphical editor that I can replace gedit with and has more features to autosave and prevent losing data? I don't need (want) the features of libreoffice or another more advanced editor. Maybe even a graphical front-end to vim that's as quick and lightweight?

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On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Alex <mysqlstudent(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Is there a simple, lightweight graphical editor that I can replace > gedit with and has more features to autosave and prevent losing data? vim(-enhanced) Install vim-X11 for a graphical version, although, for note taking, I would just use a terminal.

Hi, On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Garry Williams <gtwilliams(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Alex <mysqlstudent(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> Is there a simple, lightweight graphical editor that I can replace >> gedit with and has more features to autosave and prevent losing data? > vim(-enhanced) > > Install vim-X11 for a graphical version, although, for note taking, I > would just use a terminal. I really love (need) the multi-tab capability and the ability to display the filename I'm currently working on in gedit as well. It's looking increasingly likely I'll have to use libreoffice. _______________________________________________

On 5 February 2018 at 21:56, Alex <mysqlstudent(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > I used gedit frequently for note taking on a fedora27 system. The > latest kernels have been quite unstable for me here (plug in a USB > stick and the whole thing crashes, for example), taking down all my > unsaved notes with it. > > Is there a simple, lightweight graphical editor that I can replace > gedit with and has more features to autosave and prevent losing data? > I looked at gedit-3.22.1 on my system, and in Preferences -> Editor there's an option to "Autosave files". You mean that option doesn't work for you? FWIW you may have a look at kate (a KDE/Qt app), it creates a hidden file *.kate-swp in the directory where the file you're editing exists and usually if it crashed and didn't close properly it will alert you the next time you open that file that it wasn't saved properly and give you an option to "restore" the file. And it supports tabs. [..] -- Ahmad Samir _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org

> FWIW you may have a look at kate (a KDE/Qt app), it creates a hidden > file *.kate-swp in the directory where the file you're editing exists > and usually if it crashed and didn't close properly it will alert you > the next time you open that file that it wasn't saved properly and > give you an option to "restore" the file. And it supports tabs. This sounds interesting, thanks.