[SOLVED] lightweight text editor

ttk · 04-20-2015, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by D1ver

No emacs suggestions? RMS would be disappoint.

I'm an emacs user (though I use jove most of the time, for the "emacs light" experience). The original post specifically requested a graphical editor, and emacs' graphical interface is horrible. I always use the "-nw" option when using emacs, to force it into ncurses mode (which works very well).

Thus, from my perspective at least, emacs fails to meet the request's criteria.

qweasd · 04-20-2015, 10:23 PM

I agree with ttk, as a religious emacs user too. Whatever emacs is, it's definitely not "lightweight" and is a far cry from "something like notepad in Window[$]". I would point at kate: simple, familiar-looking, blessed by KDE, and already included in Slackware. And for a true standard lightweight app look no further than ed.

zakame · 04-20-2015, 10:23 PM

But ed is the standard text editor...

travis82 · 04-20-2015, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Diantre

Leafpad maybe.

I agree. Leafpad is the simplest and lightest text editor I have ever used

STDOUBT · 04-21-2015, 12:38 AM

No mention of Ted? For shame!

turboscrew · 04-21-2015, 01:53 AM

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My guess is: about 2000 separate lines to be copied from PDFs and edited.

Think about selection, copying and pasting with keyboard. And from PDFs.

It would actually be great if editor could handle (read) PDFs. It could make copying a LOT easier.
But I guess I can continue dreaming...

This is what it looks like when you click at the first '1' and draw a line down (to select a line):

Click image for larger version

Name: pdfcpy1.png
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ID: 18182

And this is what the paste looks like:

Code:

if W == ‘1’ && Rn == ‘1101’ then SEE POP (Thumb);
n = UInt(Rn); registers = P:M:’0’:register_list; wback = (W == ‘1’);
if n == 15 || BitCount(registers) < 2 || (P == ‘1’ && M == ‘1’) then UNPREDICTABLE;
if registers<15> == ‘1’ && InITBlock() && !LastInITBlock() then UNPREDICTABLE;
if wback && registers<n> == ‘1’ then UNPREDICTABLE;
Encoding T1 ARMv4T, ARMv5T*, ARMv6*, ARMv7 (not in ThumbEE)
LDM<c> <Rn>!, <registers> <Rn> not included in <registers>
LDM<c> <Rn>, <registers> <Rn> included in <registers>
Encoding T2 ARMv6T2, ARMv7
LDM<c>.W <Rn>{!}, <registers>
ThumbEE instructions See 16-bit ThumbEE instructions on page A9-1115.
1 1 0 0 1 Rn register_list
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 W 1 Rn P M (0) register_list
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

You see the source of my misery? :-)

turboscrew · 04-21-2015, 02:06 AM

Hm, I made the thread 'unsolved' again, since the discussion seems to interest people - including me.

veerain · 04-21-2015, 03:03 AM

Gvim - graphical vim, leafpad and tea are simple and basic text editors. Though gvim is advanced as vim is.

dederon · 04-21-2015, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by turboscrew

It would actually be great if editor could handle (read) PDFs.

didn't you talk about a *lightweight* text editor?

Quote:

Originally Posted by turboscrew

Think about selection, copying and pasting with keyboard. And from PDFs.

convert the document with pdftotext first.

MadMaverick9 · 04-21-2015, 04:56 AM

Try this in vim:

Code:

:read !pdftotext input.pdf -

The "-" means that "pdftotext" will send its output to stdout.

@dederon: you beat me to it.

turboscrew · 04-21-2015, 06:26 AM

I actually converted the PDF to text file a bit earlier, and I was astonished to see how fast the search in Vim is, even if the file is quite big.

I might use Vim, or maybe Vim for copying and some other editor for pasting and editing.

I recall using Vim not so long ago and I pasted something, and I recall you have to open a line first before you can paste, and then go back to command mode to move around.
For marking and copying you can stay in command mode.

jlinkels · 04-21-2015, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by turboscrew

I recall using Vim not so long ago and I pasted something, and I recall you have to open a line first before you can paste, and then go back to command mode to move around.
For marking and copying you can stay in command mode.

Only if you want to paste using SHFT-CTRL-V. Then you have to enter edit mode because the SHFT-CTRL-V actually pastes characters in the keyboard buffer. For "internal" pasting in Vim (using p or P) you stay in command mode.

jlinkels

Didier Spaier · 04-21-2015, 07:49 AM

I didn't find the specific document pictured on post #36 on the internet, but one probably similar: armv7-a-r-manual.pdf. It wheights 23685794 bytes according to ls and has 2734 pages.

Saving it as text using the built-in Acroread's converter (File=>Save as Text) takes a few minutes on my laptop and the layout is not preserved .

"pdftotext -layout <input file> <output file>" is amazingly fast: it takes less that one minute here and somehow preserves the layout, indenting with spaces. This could be handy in your case.

Out of topic, LibreOffice took more than one hour to open the pdf file. The result looks well but is not usable in your case as each page is rendered as a drawing (LibreOffice Draw).

turboscrew · 04-21-2015, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

I didn't find the specific document pictured on post #36 on the internet, but one probably similar: armv7-a-r-manual.pdf. It wheights 23685794 bytes according to ls and has 2734 pages.

ARM Architecture Reference Manual
ARMv7-A and ARMv7-R edition
Issue C

Quote:

Saving it as text using the built-in Acroread's converter (File=>Save as Text) takes a few minutes on my laptop and the layout is not preserved .

"pdftotext -layout <input file> <output file>" is amazingly fast: it takes less that one minute here and somehow preserves the layout, indenting with spaces. This could be handy in your case.

I can have the PDF open on the side and search by chapter numbering from the text file. It doesn't cause too much trouble (considering copying from a PDF - the aiming with the mouse cursor is pretty time consuming and frustrating).
That said, maybe I'll try the '-layout'.
[EDIT]
Yep, still better with layout preserved. Thanks, Didier Spaier!
[/EDIT]

Quote:

Out of topic, LibreOffice took more than one hour to open the pdf file. The result looks well but is not usable in your case as each page is rendered as a drawing (LibreOffice Draw).

Calligra can't open it at all. I remember that OpenOffice does the best job of the three with PDFs. That's the only reason I have OoO on a windows PC.
(I think I'm going to remove Calligra and install Libre Office instead.)

Drakeo · 04-21-2015, 02:09 PM

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