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Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 12, 2006 22:39 UTC (Mon) by nas (subscriber, #17)
In reply to: Gedit Review (Softpedia.com) by jwb
Parent article: Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Never mind just functionality and efficiency. A few months ago I suggested that my wife use it for some serious work (I felt that Vim would be too weird for her). More than once it crashed and lost valuable work. I gave up and got her going with Vim in easy mode. No more problems.

A crashing editor is just not acceptable. Crashing and not having a recovery file (I could be mistaken but I don't believe that gedit has one) is even worse. I've been using Vim for many years and can't recall it crashing on me. I'm almost certain that I have never lost work that I typed into Vim. My Emacs using friends claim to have similar experiences.

Writing an easy to use editor is a great idea. However, I wish they made robustness a higher priority.

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Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 13, 2006 10:53 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm almost certain that I have never lost work that I typed into Vim. My Emacs using friends claim to have similar experiences.

It is not quite that reliable, I recall losing some work with GNU Emacs once or twice back in 1989 or so, when running it on a MicroVax with the Ultrix (the DEC BSD Unix derivative). But never since then, despite using it almost daily.

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 13, 2006 17:13 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link]

I've seen it crash, rarely, but it's real good about keeping autosaves so I've never lost more than a sentence or so of work.

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Posted Jun 13, 2006 18:45 UTC (Tue) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

I would suggest LyX (www.lyx.org). It's not suitable for people who want
to fiddle with text layout, but for people who just want the text to look
good without any fiddling, it's perfect.

Once upon a time it crashed each time I accidentally used a "dead key",
but it *never* lost a single character I had typed.

Latest version seems supports even version tracking:
http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_4_0.txt