AbiWord 1.0.1 Released

plam writes "After 3 years of hacking, the AbiWord team has unleashed AbiWord 1.0.1 upon the world. AbiWord is a Free cross-platform word processor which runs on Linux and Windows, MacOS X, QNX, FreeBSD, Solaris and others. AbiWord is small and compact (20 times smaller than OpenOffice!), yet contains most of the features found in larger word processors, including Word and WordPerfect import/export."

Comments

What use is it?

[sam_handelman]

This has no syntax highlighting, no built in ftp client and no support for reg exp in the replace dialogue. Therefore, I'm not going to code in it. If you open a document in vi to do your find/replace, then vi is your text editor - whatever else you use is a feature-bloated form of /bin/less.

If I'm just using it to print up character sheets, pico or word pad suffices (although AbiWord is comfortably smaller, and probably more stable, than WordPad.)

So, given that I won't use it for either of the two types of documents that exist, why would I get it? :)

Seriously - if it doesn't have syntax-checking (as language specific plugins, of course), it isn't for nerds. Scripts that can deal with office documents are a very promising proposition, but not without reg exp - of course that plugin could include reg exp; the plugins have no documentation.