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2006-12-14
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I have a new Nokia 770, and I need to edit text files. Notes is useless -- crashes and refuses to let me format larger files. I am using Leafpad, which works but does not allow full-screen editing (unless I'm missing something). Is there ANY editor available that does a decent job? I have the newest OS, and can't install Abiword -- does that work yet? If so, where is it available? Thanks.
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2006-12-14
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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Originally Posted by glhart@mac.com
There is vim, if you're prepared to learn. I don't know if it works fullscreen (it's a console application), as I don't have it installed -- yet.I have a new Nokia 770, and I need to edit text files. Notes is useless -- crashes and refuses to let me format larger files. I am using Leafpad, which works but does not allow full-screen editing (unless I'm missing something). Is there ANY editor available that does a decent job? I have the newest OS, and can't install Abiword -- does that work yet? If so, where is it available? Thanks.
That's about the only power editor available for the platform.
On a personal note: the "old" version of Leafpad (the ITOS 2005 version, I believe) was a lot more interesting than the new one, as it allowed access to the entire filesystem. The "new" Leafpad really sucks in that regard, as you can only get at the Nokia-approved folders from the file-open dialog.
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2006-12-14
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Try SciTe (from the Garage).
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2006-12-15
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@ Eureka, CA
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I really like nano.
Repository: [WWW] http://aeracode.org/maemo
Distribution: ./
Component: [leave blank]
Last edited by johsua; 2006-12-15 at 00:18.
Repository: [WWW] http://aeracode.org/maemo
Distribution: ./
Component: [leave blank]
Last edited by johsua; 2006-12-15 at 00:18.
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2006-12-15
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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Originally Posted by fpp
I just tried SciTe -- and whiped it off my 770:Try SciTe (from the Garage).
1. I could not find any way to change the font, other than the Tools option "use monospace font". There appears to be no way to change the screen font size.
2. Zoom buttons do nothing.
3. Using HWR input, SciTe messed everything up (double characters, missing characters, characters different from the ones in the input field).
I decided that trying out the keyboard entry was useless -- as I couldn't read (without magnifying glasses) what I wrote anyway.
Don't even consider SciTe!
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2006-12-15
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Oh come on Karel, sometimes you're so childish ! :-)
It's a goddammed programmer's editor fer crissakes, you're supposed to read the docs ! (in the desktop Windows/Linux version you don't even have tabs or a toolbar out of the box, while the maemo port does :-)
SciTE is VERY configurable, it's just not in a dialog box with dozens of tabs and hundreds of check boxes. It's done the Unix way, with very simple text files. And you don't even have to drop down into the xterm shell and use vim, you can do it all from inside SciTE itself.
Try this :
In the Options menu choose "Open Global Options file". This opens the master preferences files. You can't change this one because it's at the system level and you'd need to be root ; anyway you shouldn't because it could be replaced by a new one during an upgrade.
Scroll way down (or do a search on "fonts") to get to this commented line :
# Give symbolic names to the set of fonts used in the standard styles
Scroll a bit further down to the "if PLAT_GTK" block.
Select the "font.base" line below (and the rest if you wish) with the stylus,
and Copy them.
Now back to the Options menu, select "Open User Options file".
This opens a new, empty tab. Paste your line(s) there.
Now change the size value at the end of the font.base line to 12 or higher, and save the file. Voilą, you don't even need to restart SciTE for the changes to take effect.
Of course you can customize a great many things this way. I think this is way easier than what many regular users have to go through just to change the default font size in their opera.ini, no ?
It's a goddammed programmer's editor fer crissakes, you're supposed to read the docs ! (in the desktop Windows/Linux version you don't even have tabs or a toolbar out of the box, while the maemo port does :-)
SciTE is VERY configurable, it's just not in a dialog box with dozens of tabs and hundreds of check boxes. It's done the Unix way, with very simple text files. And you don't even have to drop down into the xterm shell and use vim, you can do it all from inside SciTE itself.
Try this :
In the Options menu choose "Open Global Options file". This opens the master preferences files. You can't change this one because it's at the system level and you'd need to be root ; anyway you shouldn't because it could be replaced by a new one during an upgrade.
Scroll way down (or do a search on "fonts") to get to this commented line :
# Give symbolic names to the set of fonts used in the standard styles
Scroll a bit further down to the "if PLAT_GTK" block.
Select the "font.base" line below (and the rest if you wish) with the stylus,
and Copy them.
Now back to the Options menu, select "Open User Options file".
This opens a new, empty tab. Paste your line(s) there.
Now change the size value at the end of the font.base line to 12 or higher, and save the file. Voilą, you don't even need to restart SciTE for the changes to take effect.
Of course you can customize a great many things this way. I think this is way easier than what many regular users have to go through just to change the default font size in their opera.ini, no ?
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2006-12-15
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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Originally Posted by fpp
This is not how I want to configure a GUI editor. With Opera, it was a one-time change; besides, in Opera the zoom buttons work.
Oh come on Karel, sometimes you're so childish ! :-)
It's a goddammed programmer's editor fer crissakes, you're supposed to read the docs ! (in the desktop Windows/Linux version you don't even have tabs or a toolbar out of the box, while the maemo port does :-)
SciTE is VERY configurable, it's just not in a dialog box with dozens of tabs and hundreds of check boxes. It's done the Unix way, with very simple text files. And you don't even have to drop down into the xterm shell and use vim, you can do it all from inside SciTE itself.
Try this :
In the Options menu choose "Open Global Options file". This opens the master preferences files. You can't change this one because it's at the system level and you'd need to be root ; anyway you shouldn't because it could be replaced by a new one during an upgrade.
Scroll way down (or do a search on "fonts") to get to this commented line :
# Give symbolic names to the set of fonts used in the standard styles
Scroll a bit further down to the "if PLAT_GTK" block.
Select the "font.base" line below (and the rest if you wish) with the stylus,
and Copy them.
Now back to the Options menu, select "Open User Options file".
This opens a new, empty tab. Paste your line(s) there.
Now change the size value at the end of the font.base line to 12 or higher, and save the file. Voilą, you don't even need to restart SciTE for the changes to take effect.
Of course you can customize a great many things this way. I think this is way easier than what many regular users have to go through just to change the default font size in their opera.ini, no ?
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2006-12-15
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Thanks for the instructions for changing the font in scitex -- I was trying to figure it out and couldn't get the global prefs to save.
How about AbiWord? It's supposed to be (almost) ready -- any place to download it?
How about AbiWord? It's supposed to be (almost) ready -- any place to download it?
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2006-12-15
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens
It's a one-time change in SciTE too, except it's so much easier if you need a second or even third try...This is not how I want to configure a GUI editor. With Opera, it was a one-time change;
besides, in Opera the zoom buttons work.
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2006-12-15
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One more thing: many of the menu commands in scitex (and other programs) have an optional form of ctrl + (something). Is there any way to get ctrl on the virtual keyboard?