replace beaver with leafpad
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: replace beaver with leafpad
started by: kerry
Posted by kerry on July 11 2006,23:28
hey all, i was just playing with that dsl-n rc2 and like that leafpad better than beaver for text editing. any chance that can be passed to the next DSL testing/release/version?
Posted by crusadingknight on July 12 2006,00:02
Personally, I think the gtk-2 requirement effectively limits leafpad to dsl-n and the extensions (the dsl version of beaver uses gtk-1). Personally, I like my RAM footprint smal; just to demonstrate the difference, the gzipped tarballs of gtk+2 and requirements are ~20MB in size, while a gzipped tarball of gtk+1 is roughly 10MB in size. Though that decreases for the libraries themselves, gtk+2 still uses a lot more RAM, and space.(However, I do suspect leafpad &c. have better performance than beaver, which begins to slow down when working on files > 300 lines.) Also, leafpad doesn't seem to have any syntax highlighting, so it would be rather useless as a replacement for a 'lightweight programmer's editor'.
EDIT: Maybe < Minimum Profit >? It runs on gtk+1.2, curses, gtk+2, etc., and seems to be well ported too. Though, it may be slightly larger than beaver (though I can't be sure, the beaver FTP site seems to be down...)
Personally, I'm a vim guy myself, so don't expect me to be very well informed.
Posted by brianw on July 12 2006,00:50
| Quote (crusadingknight @ July 11 2006,20:02) |
| Personally, I'm a vim guy myself, so don't expect me to be very well informed. |
Use it for almost everything.
Posted by mikshaw on July 12 2006,03:56
I never use vim if I'm not editing a text file.
Posted by roberts on July 12 2006,04:41
We had Minimum Profit for the dsl v0.9.0 release.Beaver appeared in v 0.9.1
Most of my career I used ed, the line editor.
Now, I can't function without vi. But a minimal vi is fine with me.
ae or busybox vi applet up to and including vim.
Posted by brianw on July 13 2006,01:28
| Quote (mikshaw @ July 11 2006,23:56) |
| I never use vim if I'm not editing a text file. |
Except for images or sound files for me everything is a text file. If I need to produce a "pretty" document it is HTML so it has the most portability. I only use other things if I need to view someone elses idea of portable (i.e. .pdf, .doc, etc...)
Posted by mikshaw on July 13 2006,03:16
yeah...that was sort of a joke...... 
Posted by Zucca on July 13 2006,10:15
If I use an editor it's jEdit. But it's way too large for DSL. Second option for me is Nedit. IMO Beaver should be replaced with Nedit.CLI editor: I prefer nano.
Posted by WDef on July 13 2006,10:53
I still prefer scite for scripting. Beaver is a little cumbersome for this I think.vi for quick conf file edits etc