Am Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:11:08 +0100 schrieb fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > It is not beside the point. To create a new tab, just provide > a 'New Tab' button. Or have tabs from the start and label the > next free one '+'. It doesn't require IPC at all. You're not forced to using gedit. If you don't like gedit use mousepad. Oh, you can't do that. It's evil WIMP, it can be used with the mouse. Then just use nano. Ok, not really. Nano depends on glibc, ncurses and texinfo. So it's not enough minimalism. Your ultimate text editor: echo "..." > textfile But this also depends on glibc. So, sorry, I only now such bloated text editors. Heiko