[mdlug] Linux Text Editors -- Try Cooledit

[Carl T. Miller]

Interesting.  I didn't know about Cooledit.  And I'm
wondering if you'd like to give the group a live demo
at our next meeting.  All you'd need to do is join us
in jitsi and share your screen.

What do you think?

c


On 1/2/23 03:43 PM, LAP wrote:
> There are many text editors available for GNU/Linux.  Some of the popular
> ones are vim, emacs, geany, and others that I cannot recall at the moment.
>
> But there is one very competent, though somewhat obscure, text editor
> that I would like to recommend for others to try: Cooledit.
>
> ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/editors/X/cooledit/
>
> Cooledit is a graphical editor which uses X Window libraries and
> freetype but does not depend on other graphical toolkits like GTK+.
>
> Cooledit is practically a DE in that it includes debugging, email,
> and much else and is also programmable via Python.
>
> My only dissatisfaction is that Cooledit uses the Noto font ensemble
> to render Unicode and the Noto fonts are, to me, not that visually
> appealing.  However, after a brief study of the source code I have
> created a patch that allows use of the Liberation fonts that, again
> to me, look much nicer.
>
> I would encourage others to try this editor.  The above link has
> a few binary packages as well as the source code.
>
> Cooledit has been around for a while and I am surprised that this
> fine text editor+ is not well known to most Linux users.
>
>
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