When a text editor’s catch phrase is “Scribes: It’s about the experience, not features.” you have to wonder what you are in for. However, Scribes is a very different editor. Scribes is all about making you productive. In fact, the developers of Scribes declare you will become exponentially more productive when using their tool. Why? [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

If you’ve been following my series on Linux text editors you have read about a number of different variations on this theme. Some editors have been very GUI friendly, some have been just shy of a text-based editor, and some of them fall somewhere in between. Many people seem to prefer the in between editors [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source

If you’ve followed my recent text editor series you will have noticed I included a text editor that is also a collaborative tool (see my article “Kobby: KDE collaborative text editor“). In that article I mentioned that Kobby can work with the GNOME equivalent Gobby. But to do so they need a server running. The [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic

My series of articles covering text editors wouldn’t be complete without a collaborative tool. I have already covered (some time ago) Gobby (see my article “Collaborate in real time with Gobby“) and now it’s time to re-visit this topic from the KDE perspective. The KDE equivalent of Gobby is, to no surprise, Kobby. Kobby is [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

In my last article I introduced you to Gedit (see “Gedit: No more text-based editor for you!“) and, as promised, this time around we will examine the KDE equivalent…Kate. Kate is an interesting beast in that it is comprised of two parts: KatePart (which is the underlying editor that is also used in other KDE [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software

If you have been reading Ghacks long enough you know I am partial to the Nano text based editor. For many users that editor (or one like it) is all they need. Because of the simplicity of the tools, why slow down your work with a GUI right? But for some, those GUI-less editors are [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Scite is an Open Source text editor for Windows and Linux. It supports many of the features of popular editors like Notepad++ and can therefor be seen as an alternative to those programs, at least on the Windows operating system. Scite can open multiple text files at once which are displayed in tabs in its [...]

Categories: Linux, Software, Windows

Distractions can slow down the work flow tremendously. That’s true for almost every profession. Crea Writer is an application for the Windows operating system that provides writers with a minimalistic distraction free interface so that they can solely concentrate on the writing task. It is not the first application to provide users with these options, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you open a Microsoft Word document you will notice that it will always open with the first page of the document being displayed. That’s fine under most circumstances but could be problematic for users who work with large documents if they cannot remember exactly where they left off at the last time. Microsoft Excel [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic