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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And, just out of interest, there is a fork from Bluefish (I use it for hand
coding sites that have php / xhtml / mysql) called
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/raring/winefish/

Has anyone got experience with this?

Regards,

Phill.

On 20 June 2013 23:24, Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> Probably not for someone using Linux itself. But if there are people
> using it in a Virtual Machine under Windows (for whatever reason), it
> would work decently enough. Or if you want a version that does the
> syntax highlighting, which some of the text editors don't provide (I'm
> looking at you, leafpad :) ), then it's worth the trouble.
>
> Plus, it gives us a chance to experience how to install and run
> applications through Wine (for those who really haven't tried it).
>
> In truth, I forgot about gedit and kate having the syntax highlighting
> (and I wasn't sure how well it highlights our customized LaTeX syntax).
> And when I opened the tex files in leafpad, it didn't have the
> capability (that I saw).
>
> Have a great day.:)
> Patrick.
>
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 17:06 -0500, Kevin Godby wrote:
> > Hello, Patrick.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > In a couple of threads, people were discussing GUI-based editors for
> tex
> > > files. If you've got Wine installed, you can install Notepad ++ and it
> > > supports LaTeX highlighting. The only issue you might run into is
> > > whether it uses the same carriage returns (Unix or DOS) as the rest of
> > > the manual (but I honestly don't think that's an issue).
> > >
> > > If you want to check it out, you can find it at
> > > http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
> >
> > Is there a benefit to using Notepad++ versus a Linux-based text editor
> > or LaTeX IDE?
> >
> > (It just seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to edit a
> > text file.)
> >
> > —Kevin
>
>
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