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A text editor for plain text files in Linux

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scooterx3

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I use Linux Mint, and I like using regular old gedit for most of my notes that I take in meetings, etc that I need quick access to on my netbook (quicker loading time than Libre Office). I use dropbox on all of my computers and on my Android. I want to be able to open those plain text files on my phone, at least just for viewing. However i can't seem to find an application that'll do it. There's a million and one apps for viewing files that have the '.txt' extension (which I could add if I weren't lazy) but does anyone know why it is that I have to have that .txt on the end of the file? What's the big deal if it's just plain text anyway? Is there an app I could use? Any help appreciated. Thanks.
 
If you need a editor for text without .txt extension, so you should have a look at 'TxtPad' :)

Harry
 
scooterx3 said:
I use Linux Mint, and I like using regular old gedit for most of my notes that I take in meetings, etc that I need quick access to on my netbook (quicker loading time than Libre Office). I use dropbox on all of my computers and on my Android. I want to be able to open those plain text files on my phone, at least just for viewing. However i can't seem to find an application that'll do it. There's a million and one apps for viewing files that have the '.txt' extension (which I could add if I weren't lazy) but does anyone know why it is that I have to have that .txt on the end of the file? What's the big deal if it's just plain text anyway? Is there an app I could use? Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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I use gedit on my Linux boxes but I always make a point of adding the .txt file extension so that text files on the phone will be recognizable in most android text editors.
 
Harry2 said:
If you need a editor for text without .txt extension, so you should have a look at 'TxtPad' :)

Harry
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Thanks. I downloaded it, no go. Until I opened the file from within TxtPad. I then tried 10 or 15 of the other text editors on my device and most of them worked as well. My problem actually isn't so much that the editors don't open them, but that the file is not recognized as a text file that's supposed to be opened in a text editor, so when I am browsing using dropbox, it tells me that I'm out of luck and there's no app that can open that file. Grrrr... I need to find either another way to browse those files or else just add the '.txt' to the end of the files like ardchoille does. Speaking of which, I wonder if there isn't a way in gedit to just make it append the '.txt' onto the end of each file? ... hmmm....
 
The issue is Linux doesn't care about file extensions, FAT file systems do.. you'll have to add the file extension manually until Google stops using garbage file systems for the SD card.
 
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