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➡️ burgeonlab.com/2025/retext-mar

I'm kinda obsessed about #Markdown editors. I love live previews/dual-panel views, minimal UI and customizable nature.

I discovered #ReText, a #python based md editor, which is not technically supported on Macs, but I got it working in the end after trial and error!

github.com/retext-project/rete

Read my guide on how to get it running and let me know how it goes!

www.burgeonlab.comReText: Markdown Editor (How to Install Python Apps on Mac) - Burgeon LabExperiment with Markdown editors on Macs. Full guide on ReText Linux app installation on macOS, advantages of Markdown, and installing Python apps on Mac.

Is there any way to prevent the 'standard' text editors 'mousepad', 'pluma' or 'gedit' from ever using tabs?
Even though 'mousepad' has a 'new tabs in new window' option it doesn't work when opening a new file from caja.
Can you recommend an alternative text editor where one doesn't have to perform a song and dance just to get it to open EVERY new file in a new window?
Thanks in advance!
#Linux #Ubuntu #TextEditor #text #editing #editor

youtube.com/watch?v=GoyNMFccbo just been idly watching Kay Lack's excellent little video "The little editor that could" all about ed, how it works, and why it was made that way.

Some excellent ideas, some nice bits of history, some archival footage, and also a beautiful little version of ed designed for the web (toys.0de5.net/ed60/) that gives you a terminal where you can essentially "cut" parts of your history out and move them around as if they were tty output.

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@afreytes @blogdiva apparently Notepad++ and Geany are both based on the Scintilla editor engine, so the theoretically should be similar. But I think Geany is clearly designed more as an IDE.

For me, the most important feature of an editor is the ability to run text through a command line filter like the awk command, or the jq command. Without this, an editor is basically useless to me, and unfortunately, there are not many text editor that make this easy to do (though Vim and Emacs fit the bill). Nano would be so much more useful if they could just add that one simple feature. Geany does have this feature but it is buried under two submenus (Edit -> Format -> Send Selection), so you have to configure your key bindings to make it easier to use.

I still recommend Linux users try to allocate some of their time to learning Vim and/or Emacs, even if they don’t use these text editors day-to-day. These software are such an integral part of the Linux and Unix community, I believe it will make it much easier for you to connect with other community members if you know at least the basics of how to use these editors, especially when doing problem solving with other people.

www.geany.orgGeany
#tech#Software#FOSS
#Apple #MacOS managed to pleasantly surprise me for once

You have to pay me pretty well to use Mac OS or Windows… and that is what my new employer is doing, so I have started using Mac OS as a daily driver again for the first time in over 15 years. For the most part I have been quite disappointed with how things have changed in that time.

But, I just discovered one little detail in the Mac OS “Text Edit“ application that made my day: it has a few of the Emacs key bindings built-in. You can do Control-N,P,F,B to move the cursor around, Option-Control-F,B to jump around words, and Control-Y to paste text. (Unfortunately, Control-W does not copy text.) I am sure there are a few others, I haven’t bothered to check yet.

Well done, Mac OS engineers.

I wanted a text editor that works on the command line and does non-destructive word wrap (i.e. doesn't hard code in new lines where I didn't add them). My main consideration (apart from the word wrap thing) is that it work well over SSH because I do a lot of that these days.

I tried a bunch before I found one I like. From a practical perspective, it's Linux only. (Follow up for reply guys in the following toot.)

The interface is reminiscent of the DOS command Edit and it has a lot of features and functionality I wouldn't have expected.

It's called Tilde and it's pretty great.

The Tilde text editor. Contribute to gphalkes/tilde development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubGitHub - gphalkes/tilde: The Tilde text editorThe Tilde text editor. Contribute to gphalkes/tilde development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fortunately there is life beyond #nvim and #emacs. Faithful to Unix philosophy I decided I do not need one text editor do do _everything_ and its opposite. So I had good think about what I want from an editor:

- A distraction free, cozy writing for homilies, blog posts, etc.
* Should be able to do soft-wrapping at a column width I like (I like 66, not 80).
* Usual save / open / etc, without giving me a headache
* Some "WYSIWYG"-like features for bold, italic, etc. Most terminal emulators can do this now.
* Some text layout options for plain-text, like centering / justifying a column.
* Ideally the ability to add my syntax highlighting (for my gemtext needs)
- A standard code editor:
* Syntax highlighting
* Efficient movement
* Extensible, to some extent, but it shouldn't want to be second OS
* LSP integration
* Line numbering, folding, auto-indent
* I kinda like VSCode's docstring popups for functions.
- CLI preferred but gonna die on that hill
- OpenBSD ports preferred because the "Get the code from GitHub and install yet another compiler I don't want" way of life is tedious.

So my investigations yielded: [TBC]

LT Anyone have an iOS #textEditor that they could recommend? I’m looking for something super basic. No Obsidian, Drafts, iA Writer, etc. I’d prefer to avoid subscriptions as this isn’t something I’d use often enough to justify one. Think TextEdit, but fewer features.

I’d like to be able to edit files via the Files app.

Boosts appreciated.