geany

[Luca Bezzi]

Hi Fabrizio and Denis,
I think Geany can replace Kate without problems.
Ciao.

On 10/07/2014 08:03 PM, Fabrizio Furnari wrote:
> Hi Denis,
> I already use geany and I know it very well. In my opinion it could be 
> a very useful alternative to kate, and I agree with your proposal but 
> I don't know if kate could be necessary for some workflows.
> I think here Luca or Alessandro could help us to check this...
>
> Ciao,
>
> Fabrizio
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Denis Francisci 
> <denis.francisci@gmail.com <mailto:denis.francisci@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>     For Theoderic, I would suggest to replace Kate with Geany
>     (http://www.geany.org/).
>     They are very similar, but in my opinion Geany is better because
>     of 4 advantages:
>     1. it has less dependencies than Kate (Kate is the KDE editor and
>     need a lot of KDE dependencies);
>     2. for this reason Geany is smaller and faster than Kate;
>     3. it is multi-platform;
>     4. Geany has block/column selection like Kate, but with Geany is
>     possible not only selecting, copying, pasting and deleting in
>     column mode, but also WRITING in column mode, a feature that Kate
>     doesn't support.
>     The column mode writing is very useful for us when we have to edit
>     coordinates file for example. This feature make Geany very similar
>     to Notepad++ (only for Windows) or to UltraEdit (commercial software).
>
>     I'm testing this software and I'm very satisfied. If other users
>     would test Geany in these days, we could think to add it in
>     ArcheOS very soon. Debian package already exists, so the
>     replacement wouldn't be difficult for us.
>
>     Bye
>     Denis
>
>
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