Re: TexTEdit often freezes GWorkspace while editing a text file

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Patrick,

Patrick Cardona wrote:
> I have experienced a very bad behaviour with TextEdit while editing 
> simple and tiny text files, which every time had the same result : 
> GWorkspace became frozen. The only way to go ahead was to terminate / 
> kill the GWorkspace app with the context menu of the window. I wonder 
> how a simple app like an editor could freeze the whole Workspace...

It should absolutely not! I wonder what is happening.
If I remember, TextEdit is almost a pure "OpenStep" port in BackBone, so 
if there are issues, it is 99% a GNUstep bug.


> So, what were the alternatives ?
> I want an app well integrated in the GNUstep ecosystem.
> Nedit.app is ugly and cannot deal with unicode, which I need in French 
> editing context.
> Gemas, Emacs.app are more oriented hacking tasks done,  and in my 
> case,  Gemas is not able to load a file with #o or like a service. I 
> have not tried Emacs.app yet because I read about a slow scrolling in 
> the discuss list...
>
> So I choose Ink.app, which seems fine and much stable for these diary 
> quick text editing tasks than TextEdit was.

Ink is my generic "notepad" as GNUstep application.

I use Emacs but only as non-gnustep app, I hope that sooner or later we 
can enjoy the native version, but for now it is hard.

> Who does really use TextEdit on GNU/Linux OSes as the main GWorkspace 
> editor ? 


I don't but it should work, I think it is worth a debug.

Riccardo