Re: [gedit-list] Gedit for console

[James Freer <jessejazza3 uk gmail com>]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 23:33 +0100, James Freer wrote:
> > I love gedit as a prose text editor for a writer in the gui. However, I also
> > use the console a lot and was wondering how much altering of code would be
> > involved to make gedit a console editor as well.
>
> gedit uses heavily GTK+, which is a graphical widget toolkit, a GTK+
> application can not run in the console. To run gedit in a console, an
> ncurses interface must be implemented for example, but in this case 90%
> of the current code can not be reused…
>
> And the whole point of gedit is to be a graphical text editor…
>
> --
> Sébastien

"whole point of gedit is to be a graphical text editor" I wondered if that was 
the case. I find gedit an excellent editor and thought it was worth mentioning. 
I'll stay with gedit for gui but started doing much more on the console now.

I'll have to stay with emacs-nox - just rather complicated that's all.

james