Post Suggestion: Linux GUI Editors for 32 bits

[kovacslt (László Kovács)]

@nevj

How does Wayland get on with buffers? I hope it emulates X.

On Debian 12 KDE in its current state it wroks.
Select text somewhere, middle-button in terminal pastes that.

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

As usual, Arch seems to describe it well
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/clipboard

[daniel.m.tripp (Dan Tripp)]

@kovacslt

On Debian 12 KDE in its current state it wroks.
Select text somewhere, middle-button in terminal pastes that.

Phew! That’s a relief!

Like @nevj - I couldn’t live without that feature!

Still not ready to make the switch to Wayland quite yet - I’ll wait till Synergy 3 is no longer in RC (release candidate - it’s currently at RC3) and announce 100% Wayland support… Meanwhile I plod on with X11 and Synergy 1.14.6-stable…

I’m looking forward to it - Synergy reckon they’re going to support MacOS “gestures” - the main one I would use is three finger swipe sideways (virtual desktops) - I don’t currently use it 'cause Synergy 1.x doesn’t support them (I have a 2.4 Ghz logitech wireless trackpad - but don’t use it - cause Synergy doesn’t send swipes or gestures to clients).

Sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread … Oops I did it again :

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[Laura_Michaels]

@nevj

I move around a lot between distros, and the only editors available everywhere are vi and nano. Was recently surprised to find Busybox only has nano.

I use nano on most systems if there’s no GUI support. If I’m doing any serious programming development, I prefer a customizable GUI editor that will easily let me access multiple files at once. If you’re interested, I can share a link to an article on customizing SciTE.

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Laura_Michaels

If you’re interested, I can share a link to an article on customizing SciTE.

Let me get an install first. I have been busy with S6.

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Laura_Michaels

If I’m doing any serious programming development, I prefer a customizable GUI editor that will easily let me access multiple files at once.

I usually just use multiple terminal windows to access multiple files. You need at least a Window Manager for that of course.

I had a preliminary try
Installed scite-5.5.0 in Void/Xfce
It dragged in lua53-5.3.6
Download size 2340Kb, Disk used 7671Kb… so it is small
No menu entry or icon.
Started from command line it looks like this

That is a Latex file… it greens the commands and reds the braces.
It does not have Latex as a language, but it has Tex.

Early days, all I can do is use it like nano
I can start it with file
scite <filename>
or without.
Scite does not seem to be available in R. R uses editors internally as a function
z <- vi(z)
read as ‘z becomes vi of z’
R only has functions or vi, pico, emacs, xemacs, xedit.
It would probably not be difficult to write a function for scite.
system("scite") from within R will start it but it sees files, not objects in the R workspace.
I guess that is why it does not list R as a supported language

[Laura_Michaels]

SciTE needs customization to really shine. You can add highlight properties to just about any kind of file type. You can also modify the code highlighting SciTE uses by default. If you’re interested in more information on customization, see the SciTEDoc.html file. Also, I have an article on how to do some things that might be evident from that file. There’s a SciTE Lua script web site with lots of scripts to add features as well. I like the customization ability of SciTE and have found few editors that give that much control over settings.