Public bug reported:
Unix pro users on the terminal emulator probably use vi, emacs or nano
to edit plain text files. Those have all short binary names because it
is a practical common UNIX practice to use short binary names for common
usage.
With Ubuntu 22.10 gnome-text-editor is the new default text editor
instead of gedit. I used gedit quite often for editing files and "gedit"
was like "vi" or "nano" easy to type.
gnome-text-editor is not certainly not written for being invoked from
the terminal but like gedit before it will be used by Linux beginners
for it's ease of use (like notepad on Windows).
Having a short alias like e.g. "gted" by default would make it easy to
invoke gnome-text-editor for those who don't know how to set aliases or
edit the .bashrc. And having it set by default would help having seeing
it used in Ubuntu tutorials.
Upstream is not willing to discuss the clunky binary Name thus this
would be a non intrusive downstream workaround.
As Debian is more of a power user distribution and Ubuntu more beginner-
centric, I decided to file the bug for Ubuntu only.
1) System: Ubuntu 22.10
2) Package: gnome-text-editor 42.2
3) What I expected to happen: a fast way to open the text editor that I
am used to in gnome-terminal
4) what happened instead: "gnome-text-editor filename"
** Affects: gnome-text-editor (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1987556
Title:
Add a short alias (eg "gted") for gnome-text-editor
Status in gnome-text-editor package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Unix pro users on the terminal emulator probably use vi, emacs or nano
to edit plain text files. Those have all short binary names because it
is a practical common UNIX practice to use short binary names for
common usage.
With Ubuntu 22.10 gnome-text-editor is the new default text editor
instead of gedit. I used gedit quite often for editing files and
"gedit" was like "vi" or "nano" easy to type.
gnome-text-editor is not certainly not written for being invoked from
the terminal but like gedit before it will be used by Linux beginners
for it's ease of use (like notepad on Windows).
Having a short alias like e.g. "gted" by default would make it easy to
invoke gnome-text-editor for those who don't know how to set aliases
or edit the .bashrc. And having it set by default would help having
seeing it used in Ubuntu tutorials.
Upstream is not willing to discuss the clunky binary Name thus this
would be a non intrusive downstream workaround.
As Debian is more of a power user distribution and Ubuntu more
beginner-centric, I decided to file the bug for Ubuntu only.
1) System: Ubuntu 22.10
2) Package: gnome-text-editor 42.2
3) What I expected to happen: a fast way to open the text editor that
I am used to in gnome-terminal
4) what happened instead: "gnome-text-editor filename"
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