TomoText is obsoleted by Leafpad. The following page from 2003 is here for your amusement only.
GNOME comes with lots of nifty, pretty-looking programs. But there is one thing it, and Linux in general, is missing: a port of Notepad!
Yeah, you've got your vi, you've got your emacs, but what you don't have is a featureless, stupidly easy-to-use text editor that also uses pretty GTK2 graphics.
Hence: TomoText!
To download TomoText, right-click the link below and save it to a good directory.
TomoText 0.9 (20kB)
To install, in case it isn't apparent, go into the folder where you saved it to using an xterm and type the following commands:
tar jxvf tomotext0-9.tar.bz2 cd tomotext ./fake su [type your root password] ./fake install
TomoText will be installed to /usr/bin/tomotext. The tar archive also includes "tomotext.png" which you can use as its icon if that floats your boat.
When a dialog comes up asking you if you want to save changes before exiting or opening a new file, sometimes it doesn't save when you ask it to. Just to be safe, save first.
Segfaults when opening or saving to files with names longer than 1000 letters. I tried to put error-checking in, but it doesn't work for some reason. So, please don't use exponentially long filenames!