[CS-FSLUG] Thanks for the help

[Ed Hurst]

Chad wrote:

> It looks like I'm going to be using gedit for now, unless someone can
> recommend something else that's better. I tried downloading jedit, but
> it won't open; it keeps hanging up on me.

Depends on what you want your editor to do. I rather like the syntax 
highlighting some offer: Joe (console editor), Nedit (motif), Kwrite 
(KDE), but I don't recall if Gedit does that. When I'm doing a lot of 
it, and know I'll be working at it for quite awhile, I rather like Cream 
running on Gvim; it's a package of macros which allows you to use Gvim 
(vi in GUI mode) with saner keystrokes and your mouse. That combination 
was my very favorite text editor in Windows, because it was the only one 
which understood the importance of fixed line-wrapping. I consider 
flowed format (aka, "soft wrapping") to be non-compliant for XHTML, as 
well as for email, etc.

> Also, Are there just two Bible programs available for Ubuntu? Gnomesword
> for the gnome environment and Bibletime for the KDE environment? Those
> are the only two that I have been able to find so far. I wish that
> e-sword were available for Ubuntu... I've heard that some people have
> successfully installed it via wine, but I've kinda' given up on wine at
> the moment.

Those are the best native to Linux and Unix. I use Bibletime on my 
FreeBSD box. For the longest time it was broken in FreeBSD, but works 
now. GnomeSword hasn't worked in FreeBSD since GNOME 2.2, and nobody 
wants to fix it. There's also BibleDesktop (aka JSword), which runs in 
Java. If you have trouble with Jedit, you may have trouble with JSword. 
There really isn't anything else except the Sword-based stuff in OpenSource.

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Ed Hurst
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