Scribes 0.1 Released (GnomeDesktop) [LWN.net]

GnomeDesktop announces the release of Scribes 0.1, yet another text editor for GNOME. "It is simple and easy to use. Scribes allows you to focus entirely on your tasks. It ensures monotonous operations, such as saving your files regularly, are handled automatically and properly. With Scribes, your workflow is never interrupted, and your files are always safe." A number of screenshots are available.

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Scribes 0.1 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Sep 21, 2005 18:01 UTC (Wed) by thomask (guest, #17985) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, I guess Scribes is admirably intentioned, but what's wrong with gEdit? If gEdit isn't usable enough, people should be using their time making it more usable, rather than re-inventing the wheel. gEdit can save your files automatically too, so I don't know why we need something new to do that.

Besides all this, Scribes is written in Python, and so it's most unlikely to get distributed with GNOME. The GNOME devs seem to me to be pretty strongly anti anything that's not written in C/C++.

Scribes 0.1 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Sep 21, 2005 20:09 UTC (Wed) by coulamac (guest, #21690) [Link]

Actually, the GNOME developers are very fond of Python and decided some time ago to allow Python programs to be shipped with the Desktop releases. (I'm sure if you google, you can find the correct links to this information.)

Cheers!

Safe? Some new meaning of the word of which I was previously unaware.

Posted Sep 22, 2005 15:24 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] (1 responses)

... saving your files regularly,... and your files are always safe

Well, that depends on just where they get saved to. If it's some temporary name or they're using file versioning, then maybe. More than once I've managed to mess up an edit session and was thankful that the editor hadn't "helpfully" saved the munged version for me.

And probably more than once I've cursed a word processing program that saved my mangled document over the good copy when I inadvertently and automatically took the default on the save dialog when I exited the app.

Safe? Some new meaning of the word of which I was previously unaware.

Posted Sep 23, 2005 11:47 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

vim creates a special .swp file for each edited file. Recovery is handled prety smartly. As a side-effect, though, you cannot edit the same file in two different sessions.

Scribes 0.1 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Sep 22, 2005 16:34 UTC (Thu) by micampe (guest, #4384) [Link] (1 responses)

I think Gobby, rather than Scribes, deserves to be mentioned on LWN.

Scribes 0.1 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Oct 6, 2005 21:13 UTC (Thu) by pkern (subscriber, #32883) [Link]

Agreed, I don't get why this editor was featured here on LWN.

Scribes 0.1 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Sep 23, 2005 18:55 UTC (Fri) by fergal (guest, #602) [Link]

I read this and I though maybe someone had implemented a Jeff Raskin style editor, following the rules of the Humane Interface. Ah well.