Re: Journal

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

Oh, I should have mentioned that the general design goal was / is to build a 
combination of askSam and ZyIndex (old dos / Window programs) for LInux.

On Thursday, September 03, 2020 04:44:14 PM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, September 03, 2020 06:50:36 AM Joe wrote:
> > I've finally decided I have to keep a diary.
> > 
> > In Debian are RoboJournal and Lifeograph.
> > 
> > Neither of them actually function, at least in sid. Does anyone have any
> > other ideas, apart from phpMyAdmin or Mysql Workbench?
> 
> I've seen the other responses, I just want to throw in my 20 mils:
> 
> I use (to oversimplify) almost plain text files with multiple records in
> each file.  Thus I can have a file named diary (or named something else)
> and just go to that file and start typing.  I can add the record separator
> (and a title / subject, date stamp, and any other meta data I want after
> (or before) I enter the text of the data.
> 
> In its current iteration (the 4th by one method of counting) it uses mbox
> files with mbox multiline mail headers as the record separator (and to
> store the meta data).
> 
> I can search and modify records in the plain text file, I can also read the
> files in an email client, and my intent is to index them (and and an
> indexed search (using recoll).  (ATM, I'm not actually using recoll, I set
> it up some time ago as a "proof of concept" but when I migrated to the
> next computer I didn't bring it along.
> 
> I currently mainly use kate as an editor, with syntax highlighting and
> folding to make it easier to read / access.
> 
> Although I'd like to release it some day, it is not yet in the state I'd
> like to have it in if / when released.
> 
> If anybody wants more details to try it out for themselves, or to work on
> it, let me know.
> 
> The current desire of my work is to migrate to a Scintilla based editor as
> that will give me a wider choice of possible editors, and deal with some
> bugs in the kate implementation (I'd call them kate bugs, but,
> conceivably, they'd say they fixed the bug (after something like 10 years)
> -- I made a half-hearted attempt to adjust my syntax highlighter after
> they claimed the bug was fixed, but it didn't seem to work -- I suspect
> they did something to undo the fix ;-)
> 
> I'd like to get the syntax highligher / folder for Scintilla written in
> C++, but C++ is a major stumbling block for me.  ;-)