Gedit Too Bloated - Leafpad rocks

[jdong]

GEdit has definitely grown from a "notepad clone" to a powerful programmer's editor that still keeps a self-explanatory, simple interface.

If you're looking for something light on low-end hardware, GEdit is not for you, and Leafpad may be a better choice (as well as other editors that share similar goals)

I regularly use systems in the 500-700MHz range, and GEdit seems fine on it, so I'd say for a large portion of computer users, GEdit would not feel slow.

[CronoDekar]

Cool, I hadn't known about Leafpad before reading this thread, and now that I found it I really like it. I'll probably be using it more in the future.

[airtonix]

mmmm strange....on my 400mhz system gedit was my bane.....toatly annoying.

snow on my p41.6ghz 512mb ram it runs ....better...

still if leafpad had code colouring , and block indenting and snippets like gedit does then i'd proly land my self a prog just as slow as gedit....

wow check the logic...1.2....3

[Mr. Picklesworth]

For quick note taking, I use Tomboy
Great little program, that one...

Otherwise I use gEdit. It's served me very well for PHP stuff!

I'll look at Leafpad today when I get home, though...
I do quite like the simple text editor that comes with Xubuntu, called Mousepad. It's very fast and very simple!

[ComplexNumber]

leafpad is one of my 'essential' apps.

[bastiegast]

The first thing I did when I opened this thread was:

sudo aptitude install leafpad

Seconds later it was on my computer. And thats why I like ubuntu

How on earth a simple text editor with syntax highlighting can become bloated remains a mystery to me, but fact is gedit does take long to load, even on my amd64 system with 1 gig ram . Leafpad showed up immediatly. So i guess i will be using this for small tasks like: sudo leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list, but for doing coding and such i dont care about load times so much and i'd care more about syntax highlighting and tabs.

[kinson]

Nice little thread here. I didn't know about leafpad before this.

I'm using an AMD64 system too (albeit running Ubuntu i386) with 1gb ram, and I find Gedit to be too slow to open simple text files (such as readme.txt or whatever). It takes about a good 2-3 seconds, which is really irritating. Especially when people see I'm using "linux"(Ubuntu), they ask me "is it faster?", and if I open a text file with Gedit, it'll surely send them running back to *******...

Anyways, I'll give Leafpad a try when I get home

Cheers,
Kinson

[fuscia]

'replace' converted me to leafpad. i still use nano too, but changing fonts in openbox themes is made much easier with that 'replace' thing in leafpad.

[dasunst3r]

Although a bit primitive, I like nano the best. I edit my config files there!

[OffHand]

I still like Leafpad. It's speed is wonderful.