Hi, On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Ahmad Samir <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 February 2018 at 21:56, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I used gedit frequently for note taking on a fedora27 system. The >> latest kernels have been quite unstable for me here (plug in a USB >> stick and the whole thing crashes, for example), taking down all my >> unsaved notes with it. >> >> Is there a simple, lightweight graphical editor that I can replace >> gedit with and has more features to autosave and prevent losing data? >> > > I looked at gedit-3.22.1 on my system, and in Preferences -> Editor > there's an option to "Autosave files". You mean that option doesn't > work for you?
I recall seeing that, but I don't think it autosaves on unnamed files. Many times I use it as a scratch pad. Now, however, I can't even find the Preferences option. I only have a hamburger menu and "Save" along the top-right and Open pulldown and a + to open a new document. > FWIW you may have a look at kate (a KDE/Qt app), it creates a hidden > file *.kate-swp in the directory where the file you're editing exists > and usually if it crashed and didn't close properly it will alert you > the next time you open that file that it wasn't saved properly and > give you an option to "restore" the file. And it supports tabs. This sounds interesting, thanks. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
