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Oh my, I was almost one of those people who hesitate to
switch over to Linux because of Notepad++.
I mean, it has what I need to write. It has different tabs
so I can toggle between my outline and my work, and I was
able to noodle around and make it so switches tabs was bound
to key commands, so I could minimize the use of what I now
realize is a great work-flow fucker-upper, the mouse. I
imagine some of you are smiling knowingly (or perhaps
frowning with consternation) at where I am going.
Notepad++ put me in as good of a work-flow in terms of text
writing as I have been in years. I have been on a journey of
discovery with gemini, gopher, and sdf, and I have had set
my estimated switch over to Linux on my home computer to the
Winter Holiday, but then I discovered that Notepad++ was
only available on Windows. I did my due diligence (web
searches) and found that you found Notepadqq and the
suggestion that you run Notepad++ in Wine -- duh, and I'm
not even a Linux user at this point.
But then I got bored at work and decided I'd check out a
few things in terminal for Apple. I'm a school teacher by
trade, but my school district is an Apple shop.
I thought to myself, "what commands that I use on sdf
could work here?" And it turned out -- dang -- all of them
that I know. Next, I thought, "well, does it have Nano?"
And lo, and behold -- and dang! -- it has Nano.
Okay, that was going well. But I what I really want is to
be able to have more than one tab open. Oh, look, I can
do that. But I mean, the tabs won't just be bound to a
key combination, will they? Oh wow, just looking the
menus and there it is: command and the number.
So, now I have a set up that I like *better* than
Notepad++, as there are even fewer distractions and there
is more that I can do just with the keyboard. Time to
invoke the magic of the slogan: plain text is beautiful.
I may be speaking out of turn here, but I imagine this is
something I can replicate pretty easily in terminal on
a Linux distro.
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I'd love to hear from people. My email is the handle minus
"net" (so, a work by Voltaire that starts with "c"), at
sdf.org.
While we're adding boiler plate: this work is in the public
domain. Do what you want with it.