Textpad under Wine

[vertigo420]

hi there,

just installed textpad under wine, runs just fine. but when i double click a file on my desktop which is associated with it, lets say "/home/user/Desktop/file.ext", textpad runs and asks if i want to create the file "z:\home\user\ome\user\Desktop\file.ext", as if it cant find the file. running textpad first and then opening the file from the menu works fine.

dragging a file into textpad also works ok.

any ideas how to integrate with the shell more smoothly?

[vertigo420]

just tried opening from /opt, textpad fails again, interpreting the filename as "/pt/file.ext".

looks as if its an issue with wine or textpad using the opening slash as an escape character? notepad.exe does something similar.

[asdfoo]

which Wine version? 1.1.20 is the latest

[vertigo420]

i have the latest stable version, 1.0.1, i also tried updating to 1.1.20 unstable and apt-get failed with a missing dependancy that it couldnt find any repo, including the winehq repo.

[sgosnell]

Any particular reason you want to go to the trouble of running textpad in wine, when there are many native Linux text editors that are more capable and user friendly?

[vertigo420]

its what ive used for programming for years and years. if you know of a substitute in linux that has all the features textpad has, im all ears.

[sgosnell]

I don't know all the features it has, but have you tried gedit? It has more than most Windows editors I've tried, and I tried a lot over the years. Notetab Pro was the last one I used, and I don't miss it at all. There are probably more text editors available for Linux than Windows, because Linux geeks tend to be programmers, and they're all free.

[eilios]

I usually use Kate for programming, although IDE's are better, Kate is a good plain text editor.