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Bjorn writes:
And which FLOSS editor available for Linux would be equivalent to it?
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And the answer is Ted.
Ted is a very old program. It looks dated as all hell because it uses xlib instead of a "modern" toolkit like Gtk4 or QT6. I do not consider this a bad thing. It's very small, very light, and has very few dependencies. It hasn't really changed in years. It's software that has achived that remarkable (for today) state of being "finished".
What Ted actually does give you is a pretty good word processor using the Rich Text Format (.rtf) that is the native Wordpad format. No more than that, and no less. It does that job and that job alone.
As an aside, I find it incredibly sad that MS would discontinue Wordpad. It's as close as it comes to a perfect program on Windows. It gives the "average" user exactly the amount of word processing capability that they need and an interface that they can understand. No more, no less. I know everything is "in the cloud" these days, but it probably shouldn't be. They planning to sunset Notepad next?
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