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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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gedit on windows

I have a 2GB USB flash drive and would like to use it to run gedit on computers at a local library. I do not have adminstrator priviledges on those computers so i cannot install cygwin or vmware. Does anyone know of a standalone emulator I could use to run gedit there?

hussam

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Registered: 2006-03-26

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Re: gedit on windows

Can't you install cygwin on the USB drive? I've done that before.

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: gedit on windows

Thanks!! I was able to install cygwin on the USB drive. And I can successfully open Cygwin.bat which says my group is currently "mkpasswd" which indicates that /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. Hrm... I have never used cygwin before; I wonder if this is okay. If not, I wonder how I can fix it. If it is okay, I wonder how I can run gedit now.... Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: gedit on windows

gedit is great and all, but it's still basic, and there's plenty of free editors for windows that do the same job with less fuss. Is gedit worth all that trouble?

Here's a few I've used, though except vim, I havn't used them for ages:
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
http://www.notetab.com/ntl.php
http://www.vim.org/
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

James

chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: gedit on windows

I am in the same situation as you : I would love to have gedit on Windows.

Unfortunatly there is not a native port. It is probably possible with cygwin, but you are not sure to be able to use the last version of gedit, and it is a real mess to install :-(

iphitus is so right about this : you should concidere using a native editor for Windows!
May I recommand a GPL licenced  gedit equivalent for Windows ?

Notepad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

Very light, powerfull and modular. It has replaced emacs on our dev machines at work ;-)

I hope it helped !
Cheers,

Chicha

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: gedit on windows

I specifically need an editor which only uses the carriage return (CR) for line breaks and does not add the linefeed (LF) character. Maybe I am mistaken but it seems like all the Windows editors, although they may edit CR-only line breaks, they will use LF also when new lines are created in that program.

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: gedit on windows

Actually it looks like Notepad++ is doing the trick when I set it to UNIX mode; thanks!

isaac32767

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Registered: 2007-11-01

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Re: gedit on windows

I specifically need an editor which only uses the carriage return (CR) for line breaks and does not add the linefeed (LF) character. Maybe I am mistaken but it seems like all the Windows editors, although they may edit CR-only line breaks, they will use LF also when new lines are created in that program.

Actually, Linux/Unix uses the LF character, not the CR character, as a line terminator. It's MacOS that uses the CR character.

PJ

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 602

Re: gedit on windows

How about jedit? I am using it at work whenever I need to open utf8 encoded files.
http://www.jedit.org/index.php

isaac32767

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Registered: 2007-11-01

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Re: gedit on windows

Jedit's a decent editor, but it's basically EMACS reimplemented in Java, with a Java-like script language in place of the LISP dialect EMACs uses. Like EMACS, edit has a big footprint, is slow to start up, and is subject to very quirky behaviors. I had it installed on my main machine for a long time, but I never found the time or energy to really learn how to use it. Mastering it would seem to require a certain obsessiveness -- again, much like EMACS.

I'm basically a VIM guy, but some of my co-workers need a gedit equivalent for Windows, which is how I found this forum. I followed Chicha's advice and took a look at Notepad++, and was very impressed. Simple, fast, easy to install and configure, and it has a ton of cool features. (Don't care for the name, though.) It might just tempt me away from Vim.

I'm even more impressed with the editing component that Notepad++ is based on, Scintilla. There are a huge number of projects based on it.