Mousepad text editor (extras/mousepad.sh)

SYNOPSIS

wrenctl install mousepad                     install it and set its look
wrenctl remove mousepad                      remove it (your Mousepad settings stay)
wrenctl manual mousepad                      print the manual steps below

mousepad [FILE]       open it (or Super+d); text files open in it too

Mousepad is a simple graphical text editor from Xfce, from Debian, made the default for plain text, Markdown, logs and shell scripts. Wren Linux sets its look: white text on black in the terminal's colors (the scheme data/mousepad-dark.xml; in Wren Linux's light theme dark text on warm light, data/mousepad-light.xml, switched by theme), dark menus, or light ones in the light theme (the mousepad command, bin/mousepad, starts it with GTK's matching theme), DejaVu Sans Mono 14, line numbers, matching braces highlighted, a line at column 80, and tabs of 4 spaces (data/mousepad.settings, set with gsettings). Run again, the script sets them only if Wren Linux's settings changed since, so your own changes stay.

LIMITS

• It runs as you and can open and change any of your files.
• Showing a script in an editor doesn't make it safe to run: read it first.

MANUAL INSTALL

# Mousepad, and gsettings to set its preferences
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends mousepad libglib2.0-bin
# The colour scheme, where Mousepad looks for schemes
install -D -m 0644 @WREN_DIR@/data/mousepad-dark.xml ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-4/styles/wren-dark.xml
# its light twin, for Wren Linux's light theme (theme light switches to it)
install -D -m 0644 @WREN_DIR@/data/mousepad-light.xml ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-4/styles/wren-light.xml
# The mousepad command with dark menus
install -D -m 0755 @WREN_DIR@/bin/mousepad ~/.local/bin/mousepad
# The settings: one "gsettings set" per line of data/mousepad.settings
grep -v '^#' @WREN_DIR@/data/mousepad.settings | grep . | while read -r schema key value; do
    gsettings set "$schema" "$key" "$value"
done
# The default for text files (in ~/.config/mimeapps.list, under [Default Applications])
mkdir -p ~/.config && touch ~/.config/mimeapps.list
grep -qx '\[Default Applications\]' ~/.config/mimeapps.list || echo '[Default Applications]' >>~/.config/mimeapps.list
for t in text/plain text/markdown text/x-log application/x-shellscript; do
    sed -i "\\|^$t=|d; /^\\[Default Applications\\]\$/a $t=org.xfce.mousepad.desktop" ~/.config/mimeapps.list
done

To undo:

# Forget it as the default for text files
sed -i '/=org\.xfce\.mousepad\.desktop$/d' ~/.config/mimeapps.list
# The command and the colour scheme
rm ~/.local/bin/mousepad ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-4/styles/wren-dark.xml ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-4/styles/wren-light.xml
# Its settings back to Mousepad's own
gsettings reset-recursively org.xfce.mousepad.preferences
# Mousepad; gsettings (libglib2.0-bin) is marked "automatic" instead of purged,
# since other programs can need it: autoremove takes it out only if nothing does
sudo apt purge mousepad
sudo apt-mark auto libglib2.0-bin
sudo apt autoremove --purge