Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread (PVT) Paul Lawrence
Very true Chris. As a community we should not be 'breaking things'. Some better communication between Developers and those making the distribution would go a long way. Regards Paul On 18/03/2019 01:28, Chris Morley wrote: Maybe we could be more mindful of requirements/expectations when

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Chris Morley
Maybe we could be more mindful of requirements/expectations when making a distribution. Probably a checklist in developers docs would helpful. I would bet more screens have external program expectations too. Chris Original message From: Jon Elson Date: 2019-03-17 5:56 PM

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/17/2019 12:49 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Or maybe upon first use in LinuxCNC a box would pop up to allow the choice of available editors. Yup, as long as that is a once-only script that replaces itself once a selection is made, that would be very good! Jon

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/17/2019 11:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 17 March 2019 11:39:05 Jon Elson wrote: On 03/17/2019 09:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. Emacs is a "heavyweight" editor. It

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 March 2019 13:49:33 Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Or maybe upon first use in LinuxCNC a box would pop up to allow the > choice of available editors. > Thats not a bad idea, but why limit it to first run. Its proably about the same amount of coding to add a "choose editor" to the file

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Or maybe upon first use in LinuxCNC a box would pop up to allow the choice of available editors. On Sun, Mar 17, 2019, 11:18 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 17 March 2019 11:39:05 Jon Elson wrote: > > > On 03/17/2019 09:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 March 2019 11:39:05 Jon Elson wrote: > On 03/17/2019 09:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas Karlsson > > > > wrote: > >> Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. > > Emacs is a "heavyweight" editor. It pulls in so many > language

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/17/2019 09:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. Emacs is a "heavyweight" editor. It pulls in so many language support libraries that it takes a long time to load. It used to take a

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 March 2019 10:15:41 andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas Karlsson > > wrote: > > Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. > > Doesn't appear on the LiveCD as far as I can see. vi is there... > > This isn't about editors. This is about changes we

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 March 2019 09:49:44 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. > True Nik, and its been around forever, but it has stuff that a new bee is going to get lost in. I've used it several times, but I have never been comfortable doing it. I'm

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. Doesn't appear on the LiveCD as far as I can see. vi is there... This isn't about editors. This is about changes we can make in the LinuxCNC sample configs _only_ to make the

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 10:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Reading the properties in synaptic, this seems like it might not be the > > ideal, at least in my experience. > > It's not ideal, but it is at least present on the LiveCD,

[Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; browsing github, I see John Thornton changed it to Mousepad. Reading the properties in synaptic, this seems like it might not be the ideal, at least in my experience. Granted, gedit is a bad editor and has created several weeks worth of recovery/rebuild work for me in times past