Richard Owlett wrote:
Andreas Rönnquist wrote:On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 05:29:58 -0600, Richard Owlett<rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:I wish to document a personal project.The desired format will resemble the outline for term papers we wrote in school in the 50's. Except some items may be a short paragraph or two long. I did a web search for text editors with an auto-indent feature. The only one I recognized was Leafpad. But I couldn't find appropriate documentation or "howto". Where would I find it? Any other suggestions for a basic text editor in the Debian repository with an auto-indent feature. I'm not interested in a full blown word processor. TIAIt seems leafpad is obsolete and not maintained any longer (It is only available in Debian Stretch). If you could try something else, I would try mousepad (which actually is a fork of leafpad). https://packages.debian.org/mousepad https://docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/startThat page suggests it's what I'm looking for.I attempted to install it on my old machine [has a large external monitor] but got a "temporary connection failure" message.Will try it again this afternoon. Thanks
As I posted earlir today, mousepad lacks ability to set a righthand margin for a line to fold at.
If you would be ready to try something new and are not afraid of massive amount of settings (and thereby possibilities) but still GTK-based, I would try SciTE. https://packages.debian.org/scite (Yes, I am biased regarding SciTE, since I'm one of the Debian package maintainers).
I looked at that page. I'm not trying to edit a program. I'm editing straight text and want lines that wrap at right margin to start a fresh line at current indent level. I didn't spot that capability.
Thanks.
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