Tried to install amyedit, which looks quite interesting, but on configure, it turns out to be dependency hell! Various gtkmm bits are not in the path, or not installed, so I tried installing them (this is Mandriva), they seemed to go in ok, but still can't configure. I do have apt-rpm installed, but that doesn't seem to find gtkmm... Oh well.
I'll keep trying, but one question: why, in the FAQ, does it answer the question why not use GEDIT instead? Am I missing something about GEDIT? It looks like any other very stripped down text editor, and not at all to be an alternative to Kile or Lyx or anything like that. There must be more to it, if people use it to create LaTex?
Peter
Well.. I put gedit in, because I've had a few questions directly regarding gedit. And I think because they thought I should just write a plugin for gedit. Although gedits 30 second startup time on my laptop and there being a fair delay between key presses and the letter appearing.
But anyway... gedit does do syntax highlighting.. and you can set it up to run commands.. so it is fairly flexible... not up to the IDE levels of Kile of Lyx... but then its not supposed to be :-)..
I must admit, I thought gtkmm was more widely available when I started writing AmyEdit... it would appear I didn't do enough research on it... not sure if I would have used something else as it is really nice.... but.. anyway.. I found some rpms for gtkmm here:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/gtkmm
Although if you haven't got gtkmm installed, its probably going to want glibmm and pangomm aswell.. so it could be quite a trek....
Anyway, good luck if you decide to have a play!
Rob.
On 16/11/05, Peter berriep@btinternet.com wrote:
Tried to install amyedit, which looks quite interesting, but on configure, it turns out to be dependency hell! Various gtkmm bits are not in the path, or not installed, so I tried installing them (this is Mandriva), they seemed to go in ok, but still can't configure. I do have apt-rpm installed, but that doesn't seem to find gtkmm... Oh well.
I'll keep trying, but one question: why, in the FAQ, does it answer the question why not use GEDIT instead? Am I missing something about GEDIT? It looks like any other very stripped down text editor, and not at all to be an alternative to Kile or Lyx or anything like that. There must be more to it, if people use it to create LaTex?
Peter
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