Editing text with Scribes

I’ve been looking for various tools people could work with that are new and yet still look and feel a bit familiar. For one, text editing is one of the common tasks that we do. Today, I saw Scribes. At first it reminded me of Notepad on Windows because of the clean look which doesn’t seem to show what else it’s capable of.

This lovely editor has syntax highlighting unlike Notepad. See the example? It’s nifty when you’re editing html files. You even have a choice of colors to use when it comes to syntax highlighting. And if you prefer having separate windows for each file you are working with, it’s ok. By default it’s like that. Not tabs, unlike Gedit. There are also other things like automatic editing, where you could set certain words to be typed correctly if you notice that you are always typing them incorrectly. I guess that some personal typing shortcuts could be set if you keep using certain abbreviations or other similar conventions which you want to be typed properly.

If you prefer to use the keyboard, you could try looking at the manual and see that there are commands you can use for managing your text files. Here are some examples:

• Press Alt-D to delete all text on a line in the editing area.
• Press Alt-Home to delete text from the cursor position to the start of the current line.
• Press Ctrl-T to indent a line or selection of lines.

Interested? It’s on Sourceforge and the Ubuntu repositories. Go check it out and see if it is useful for you.