![]() ![]() It's a CLI tool, not a fancy graphical package. works i guess but it's pretty limiting and only helps people who happened to have completely reworked the definitions of basic things like "white" and "black" and "blue" which would result in a completely unpredictable result for the app creator.ġ/ if you're running a white (or any other coloured) terminal then odds are you've already changed the other colours to suite (since other applications use the 3/4bit standard as well).Ģ/ or if they are just using a preset theme then that theme would have a suitable colour palette alreadyģ/ CLI programs shouldn't be so dependant on the palette of the colours that alternative shades render the tool "unpredictable". If they cannot get the desired effect from that then I'd rather than disabled colour by default and had an optional flag / environmental variable to enable true colour. ![]() Using the faint and intense shades for when they need to emphasis stuff. and any others that you or others might suggest are good candidates for easy note taking and reboot robustness.My solution would be to use the standard 8 colour ANSI escapes. I haven't kept notes about apps that are not suitable for lists or note taking, but I have noticed that some apps reopen all windows but all on Desktop 1, some apps only reopen a single window on whatever Desktop you reboot into, and some apps don't reopen at all, even with the "Restore All Windows" setting. Nothing reopens after a reboot and the open files seem to even have vanished from the Recents list, even though they were saved. Reboots to first desktop in the window’s original monitor. Reboots to only one window in the first desktop. Unusual concept of master window that has a paragraph from every file and then files are separately openable from there. (Last updated in 2011, but it has a new owner as of the end of 2021.) Here are some results of testing various apps that work for notemaking, if not for folded outlining, looking for reboot robustness: Apps that work So I'm asking if YOUR favorite editor supports folding and if so, does it do what TextEdit can do, keep the positions of multiple app windows on multiple Mac desktops through rebooting. To really test for that last, crucial requirement with various editors would not only mean lots of installations, which is tedious but doable, it would also mean lots and lots of rebooting during the testing. Without that, because of having lots of details, some of my ToDo and Notes files are getting too long to see all at once. With folding text, I could have each ToDo item be a heading and I could collapse and expand the text under that heading as I want. It's a very nice system for me.īut it doesn't fold text. If I have to reboot, the same files reopen in the same positions on each desktop. I can have a different desktop for each project, or multiple, adjacent desktops for parts of a project, and keep a TE file for ToDos and a TE file for Research Notes, or whatever, open on EACH desktop. The built-in Mac editor TextEdit does that. That is just uncomfortably cumbersome for my multi-project, multi-context workflow. The current state of the art appears to be tabs for multiple files. Most apps are designed with the presumption that you do everything in a single app window on a single desktop. That last requirement is the kicker because it is so rarely addressed that vendors and reviewers virtually never mention it in feature lists. Preserve window positions on multiple workspace/desktops through reboot.can fold text (aka collapse and expand).Which asks for the following features for a Linux-based editor: I found a similar question, Linux text editor with support of illustrations, folding, and different fonts? I'm looking for a Unicorn, the mythical Text Editor that will do everything I want it to do, and especially one feature that Mac's TextEdit has that I haven't found elsewhere: easily open multiple windows in multiple workspace/desktops and have the positions preserved through a reboot. ![]()
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