New to me: http://gtk-apps.org/content/show.php?content=145463

- 110k lite

- syntax highlighting (not sure how many languages supported, but deffo does html)

- tabs

- didn't need any dependencies on ubuntu server + xfce (I may have already installed other stuff though)

- I dislike mousepad, for various reasons but mainly it only does one open document at a time.

- I do like gedit, but too many dependencies !== liteweight

- ditto geany (which I install anyway)

- bonus: it's not java!

I dislike mousepad too and generally use Geany. But I'll check this out, thanks!

Poor mousepad!  I suspect the feds have put you two up to this!

Why would you use this instead of Gedit?

http://www.tehforum.co.uk/forum/index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=40879.1

Glad you axed though, I took another look at the web site and noticed the application does not seem to be in active development since a year. I pulled it into latest ubuntu from a repo, so I assumed it was more recent. I still think it's a neat and extremely lightweight editor. Gedit now relies on gtk3.x, so that would be a lot of dependencies & resources to pull down for a server install + xfc desktop running in a VM with <1g ram.

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Do people not like nano?

Nein. No.

Well I guess the point was what's the advantage of 'extremely lightweight', but VM with < 1GB tbh is probably a use case. Though still, running a GUI on a VM? Remote or local?

I'm a Vim man myself, anyway.

Far too easy to use.  Vim 4 iife

:wq

iVim isn't that hard once you get used to its weirdness<esc>bcwunique modal ways<esc>:w

local. far easier to read and edit config files than (ugh) vim over ssh. This is on a local development server instance. I wouldn't run a gui on a remote, though I would use nano rather than vim or, if doing extensive edits, edit locally and scp up.