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Still no answer to "What's the Linux equivalent of MS Wordpad?"

I am a writer and am currently switching from XP to Xubuntu. I too find Wordpad hard to beat when I am in a flow of writing. IMO Wordpad is one of Mickey$oft's rare gems.

It is a bare bones word processor, it is not a text editor. Its interface is basic and clean. It supports all the formatting that makes .rtf perfect for writing basic copy - ie tabs, paragraphs, bullet points, bold, italic, underline, line spacing... For more advanced editing .rtf files are easily converted to .doc in O.O./Abiword etc

Wordpad is basically the equivalent of the box I am writing this reply in

Is the only option for Wordpad die-hards to run Wordpad in Wine? Does anyone here have experience with doing that?

drT

If you want a lightweight WYSIWYG word processor, you might like AbiWord.

As for me I find it difficult having to use the mouse every few words, I use LaTeX if I have to write a formatted document.

I'd like to echo blassmegod's suggestion of Ted. It is more than a text editor, in that it supports rich text formatting (rtf), but it is much smaller than MS-Word or OpenOffice.org. So, it is a Linux equivalent to WordPad, in my opinion.

Hi. AFIK Ted is the only Linux native app that is close to WordPad (i.e. a lightweight WYSIWYG word processor). Unfortunately Ted is very buggy.

BUT, there is hope. Wine has it's own implementation of WordPad. So, if you install wine and then type:

wine wordpad

in a shell window you will have a version of WordPad that resembles very much the version available in Win XP.

I hope it helps.

Yeah, I like joe too, primarily when i want a non-GUI editor for things like .conf files (essentially WordStar key bindings, which is a good thing, for while they are not that easily memorable, they are easy on the typing fingers), but I am not sure that it is the best answer to this type of application.

kate, mentioned earlier, is supposed to be the programmers editor; the 'easy office' version is supposed to be kwrite, and you could try that.

Better still (imho, and in as much as understand the exact requirement, which I don't) is Tomboy Notes - brilliant for quick notes, that you just want to paste or cut to or from somewhere else.

@Brotech
Oh, yes. I've been looking at html editors (not necessarily html-only) and one interesting (and by interesting, I mean something close to weird and/or funny) you could do worse than try Tea (aka Teaqt, here and probably in a repository near you).

I can't think of anything else - anything else, at all, ever and ever - that you use for conversion from Cyrillic to Morse, or vice versa. Err, if that's a requirement, which it most probably isn't for most people. (In between the eccentricity, it does do editing, too, although you might think that the editing is a by-product, which would be a bit unfair).

joandrade beat me to it, but yes, you can use Wordpad itself through wine.

First, ensure that you have Wine installed. Easy enough.

Second, open the command terminal and enter:

And Wordpad will arise.

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