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Re:Ask HN: New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? by ericb on Saturday January 03, 2009 @10:07PM (#418925)
Just got to it... Looks nice. Have yet to find one on OS X I really liked.
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Re:Ask HN: New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? by thomasmallen on Saturday January 03, 2009 @11:31PM (#418986)
Well, the Mac equivalent is TextEdit. I use xPad to take notes, and it has a file drawer. Nice freeware app.
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Re:Ask HN: New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? by nailer on Sunday January 04, 2009 @06:35AM (#419192)
Mac equivalent to gedit would be TextMate, not TextEdit, which isn't a programmer's editor.
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Re:Ask HN: New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? by thomasmallen on Sunday January 04, 2009 @02:59PM (#419450)
He was asking about NotePad equivalents. And to call GEdit comparable to TM is ridiculous. Emacs is a much better comparison.
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Re:Ask HN: New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? by nailer on Monday January 05, 2009 @05:51AM (#420262)
Our parent seems to have edited his post to be abouit desktop widgets, so you may be right about him referring to notepad equivalents (or not).

But why do you think comparing GEdit to TM is ridiculous? Both have syntax highlighting, auto indentation, inbuilt terminals, tabs, and other programmer specific features. Neither are emacs style user environments with mail checkers and other unrelated stuff. Also GE and TM have far more discoverable configuration tweaking.

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Re:Ask HN: New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? by nickd on Saturday January 03, 2009 @10:23PM (#418937)
I would recommend TextWrangler or Smultron for basic text editing with some nice extra features thrown in.
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