Re: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Alex
Hi, >> 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 >> giv

Re: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Alex
Hi, On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 5 February 2018 at 21:56, Alex 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),

Re: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Richard England
On 02/05/2018 01:06 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Garry Williams wrote: On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Alex 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)

Re: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 16:06 -0500, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Garry Williams wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Alex wrote: > > > Is there a simple, lightweight graphical editor that I can replace > > > gedit with and has more features to autosave and prevent l

Re: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, You may want to take a look at JEdit. It has auto backup feature which lets you choose the time interval for backups. It has tabs and it has also many plugins. It is java based editor. See http://jedit.org Regards, Rami Rosen בתאריך 5 בפבר׳ 2018 23:28,‏ "Ahmad Samir" כתב: > On 5 February 20

Re: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 5 February 2018 at 21:56, Alex 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 simp

Re: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Alex
Hi, On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Garry Williams wrote: > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Alex 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 grap

Re: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Garry Williams
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Alex 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.

Re: EXTERNAL: gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Wells, Roger K.
On 02/05/2018 03:00 PM, Alex 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 g

gedit/editor with autosave

2018-02-05 Thread Alex
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 ged