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Re: Model KWrite after GEdit, keep Kate for geeks
by Tray on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @13:29

> I have never seen any non-geek use a text editor.

Oh come one! I know plenty of Windows people who use Notepad to remove HTML-formatting from text copied from web sites. Otherwise, highlighting/copying a section from a web page and pasting directly into Word ends up carrying tables, pictures, and other junk that messes up and bloats the Word document. OpenOffice and KWord also copy over rich text features, so a simple text editor is a very useful intermediator and cleanser of unwanted text formatting.

> If you're writing a text file, you don't even need to click on
> the menu bar, and you will be happily oblivious to all of the
> options available in Kwrite.

There are plenty of rudimentary features like search, replace, print, spell check, find help, etc that require accessing menus and that are crowded out by programming-specific settings. Not to mention trying to figure out how to turn off scripting features like tick marks.

I'm frankly kind of surprised by the self-centeredness of some programmers who don't want to let the vast majority of computer users in this world have a app that's optimized for their needs. You can tweak the code style knobs in Kate to your heart's desire -- let the rest of us have a lean, mean KWrite for everyday use!

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Re: Model KWrite after GEdit, keep Kate for geeks
by Morty on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @14:09

>There are plenty of rudimentary features like search, replace, print, spell
>check, find help, etc that require accessing menus and that are crowded out by
>programming-specific settings.

Let see. Search and replace, that's in the edit menu. Nope, nothing programming specific there. Print then, in the file menu and still noting programming related. I skip forward a moment to the help menu, and surprisingly nothing programmingrelated there either.

Back to the one I skipped, spell check, it's in the tools menu. There actually are something programming related here. Of 20 entries, 8 are related to programming. Thats 40%, not exactly what I'd call crowding out.

Other than this you have two entries programming related, tree if you count line numbering a programming feature. The remaining menu items bookmarks and settings has none.

So I think it's safe to say that accessing the menus does not crowd you in programming related features.

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