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A bit off topic but can someone tell me why MX has Featherpad? Xfce comes with Mousepad and seems to be a fairly competent editor for what it does. Someone who is actually writing/developing would likely use something bigger/better/faster anyway. Nothing wrong with Featherpad, just curious why the step outside the environment.

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As I remember, it is because it can print. :)

I think featherpad is ok for what it is, it does have quite a few useful options, I tend to stick with what is installed if it works for me.

One thing that I like it over Geany is that you can grab a document tab and just pull it off the interface so it is one its own. Geany doesn't do this, I looked for the option, maybe it exists but I couldn't find it in 2mins so I moved on. You can right click the tab and open it in a new window, but that's not what I want.

IMO, it strikes a nice balance between light weight and features. Plus it's still being improved constantly. Mousepad is pretty stuck as it is--not that it has many features to fix or improve.

Stevo wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 11:10 pm IMO, it strikes a nice balance between light weight and features. Plus it's still being improved constantly. Mousepad is pretty stuck as it is--not that it has many features to fix or improve.

As I'm not wanting features in my simple text editor, I prefer mousepad or leafpad. For features, I use vim.

figueroa wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 11:47 pm

Stevo wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 11:10 pm IMO, it strikes a nice balance between light weight and features. Plus it's still being improved constantly. Mousepad is pretty stuck as it is--not that it has many features to fix or improve.

As I'm not wanting features in my simple text editor, I prefer mousepad or leafpad. For features, I use vim.

For me, the extra features don't get in the way of using it as a simple text editor, but come in handy when I need them. But to each their own.

richb wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 9:22 pm Moderator: Split from previous topics as it was off topic.

Sorry Richb. My bad.

I seem to be the same as most of you. I use whatever is available. I don't use the graphical editor for much more than a quick text paste and occasional editing but they are usually my own files. If I'm in the system editing config files or something I'm normally in the terminal and call nano. I don't code or anything like that so a simple editor is more than capable of fulfilling my needs.

Two things I hate about Featherpad...
1. If you use the Xfce Places panel plugin, recently used files opened with featherpad don't show up.
2. When you try to copy the path/filename of a file from Thunar and paste in into Featherpad it pastes the whole file. In Mousepad it only copies/pastes the path.

Richard wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 10:12 pm As I remember, it is because it can print. :)

Mousepad can print. At least on Xubuntu it can.