Can any of you tell me where I might find and isolate for future uploads, the file known as "KEDIT" in the myriad of KDE files which come with linux releases such as Mandriva, Suse or Slackware?

I ask this as I've been using kedit for years now. I've found it to be a simple, straight forward, essentially no "bells, whistles and chrome" editor which I for one have found to be excellent for keeping logs of various activies or constructing "rough draft" letters.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

tyc

KEdit was the 3.5 version. We now have KWrite in the 4.x series, and it is installed by default in all distros, I think. Try typing kwrite into the search of the kickoff menu, or Alt-F2 to get krunner. I think you'll find it similar enough to fulfil your needs. There is a related application, Kate, which caters for programmers and others with more complex needs. See http://userbase.kde.org/KWrite

annew wrote:KEdit was the 3.5 version. We now have KWrite in the 4.x series, and it
is installed by default in all distros, I think. Try typing kwrite into
the search of the kickoff menu, or Alt-F2 to get krunner. I think
you'll find it similar enough to fulfil your needs. There is a related
application, Kate, which caters for programmers and others with more
complex needs. See http://userbase.kde.org/KWrite

Appreciate your getting back so soon.

I've tried that Kate but it's just a bit "too much". I'm not a programmer and accordingly my needs for a simple text editor while using KDE are much less than others.

As for file search, I've used it, with no success (Suse v10.0) so I'm guessing Kedit is "masked" or mixed in with a cluster of similar or related pgms, under a different name.

As long as I've been using KDE (six or seven years now) I didn't know about ALT-F2, thanks for the tip. Will try it

tyc

Don't worry about Kate - use Kwrite instead (which was available in KDE 3 series as well). I find Kate to be a bit too much most of the time, but Kwrite is pretty light-weight and sufficient for most needs. If you need something more light-weight you may need to look elsewhere though, because unfortunately (as annew mentioned) Kedit hasn't made it into KDE4 (yet).

airdrik wrote:Don't worry about Kate - use Kwrite instead (which was available in KDE 3 series as well).
. . . Kwrite is pretty light-weight and sufficient for most needs. . . . Kedit hasn't made it into KDE4 (yet).

Thanks for the tip. It's appreciated.

Mostly used Kedit for making notes and keeping logs; projects, office, weather and the like.

One has to wonder if those KDE folk have ever heard of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

. . . and the beat goes on.

tyc

One has to wonder if those KDE users have ever heard of "An application won't port itself to Qt4".

is possible to use kedit in kde4 ?

and how ?


thanks

It is possible to use Kedit in KDE4, but you need to have the KDE3.5 libraries that it depends on installed (I'm not sure how to do that. Your distro may still have them available; but most likely you'll have to download, compile and install yourself). From what I understand to get it to run natively in KDE4 would require an almost complete rewrite to utilize the new frameworks.

I've found that Kwrite is sufficiently light-weight in most situation. I don't know of any other reason to prefer Kedit over Kwrite.

I'm not familiar with "Vollie". You might find out if the vendor for it has support that you can ask the question.

FYI (assuming hexadecimal values), x'09' is the Tab character (usually denoted '\t') which represents sufficient space until the next tabulation (which are usually every N space or every N pixels, depending on the application), x'0a' is the New line character (usually denoted '\n'), x'0d' is the Carriage return character (usually denoted '\r'), other characters < x'20' are non-printing characters (they do special things in certain applications