On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Trevor Daniels
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Graham Percival wrote Sunday, December 06, 2009 12:23 PM
We have a new doc contributor using lilybuntu. Does anybody know:
- what's the default text editor?
- how do you make it wrap at 72 characters per line?
- does it support utf-8? (I had an issue with one patch not
applying cleanly, and I'm wondering if this was it)
I'm hardly an expert, having installed ubuntu myself
only a few days ago, but the default editor in ubuntu
from Jonathan's .iso seems to be gedit. This certainly
supports utf8 - it's the default. Text wrapping can be
set, but this simply wraps text on the screen, determined
by the window width, but it does not wrap text in the file
itself.
Oh wait, I just remembered Trevor's question about the editor when
committing... I guess the default editor for texinfo files might
be different from the default editor for EDITOR / VISUAL.
(As an aside, I tried using gedit as the git default editor.
It didn't work out. gedit was called fine, but it refused
to save the amended file that git provided saying it
couldn't find the file name. I've gone back to using nano
for git edits.)
Trevor
As a graphical editor I prefer Geany, but I can't figure how to make it wrap with proper line endings either. What I like about it for documentation work is that there's a menu item to remove trailing spaces on the file, and also one that shows line endings and stuff. It doesn't have texinfo syntax coloring by default though. :(
For the git edits, nano is probably the easiest to deal with. Vim and Emacs both have steeper learning curves and are probably overkill for git commit messages. I'm sorry to hear that gedit didn't work out for this. Have you tried using git-gui for this? If it's not installed already try "sudo apt-get install git-gui" and after it's installed, type "git gui" from the top directory. I imagine it's similar to the interface you used on Windows.
Jon