TexTEdit often freezes GWorkspace while editing a text file

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi All,

I need to deal often with many simple text files of many kinds... f.e. 
TODO.txt in each folder as a reminder... Markdown  and so on.

I have experienced a very bad behaviour with TextEdit while editing 
simple and tiny text files, which every time had the same result : 
GWorkspace became frozen. The only way to go ahead was to terminate / 
kill the GWorkspace app with the context menu of the window. I wonder 
how a simple app like an editor could freeze the whole Workspace...

So, what were the alternatives ?
I want an app well integrated in the GNUstep ecosystem.
Nedit.app is ugly and cannot deal with unicode, which I need in French 
editing context.
Gemas, Emacs.app are more oriented hacking tasks done,  and in my 
case,  Gemas is not able to load a file with #o or like a service. I 
have not tried Emacs.app yet because I read about a slow scrolling in 
the discuss list...

So I choose Ink.app, which seems fine and much stable for these diary 
quick text editing tasks than TextEdit was.

Who does really use TextEdit on GNU/Linux OSes as the main GWorkspace 
editor ?

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Regards
Patrick CARDONA