Axis gui no tool table or program editor.

OK I've got my machine setup to use geany as the program text editor in my ini. program would upen if i hit "edit" gui button.  Tool table wouldn't open using the drop down in axis. My tool.tbl does work though, as I can open it externally and add tools and linuxcnc picks it up. Then I tried switching my ini to use gedit just to see what happens.  It appears new linuxcnc doest have gedit anymore so it didn't work. Switched back to geany, and now neither tool table or program edit works. Seems buggy. Will my pyvcp panel work or easily port to a not-terrible gui?

I dont mind Geany. the problem is it wont open up my tool table from the axis screen. i have to go into the file/ folder system and open up my tool table. I think im gonna paly around with some different GUI to try and get my tool table integrated into the linuxcnc screen.
im running ethercat servos and a mesa 6i25 for my MPG and other IO. so the pnc/setpconf are irelivant for me.

Kieran wrote:

I dont mind Geany. the problem is it wont open up my tool table from the axis screen. 

It will if you set the editor setting in the ini file. Lets you use whatever editor you want. The advantage with Geany is that its very familiar for Windows users who use notepad++

yeah i like Geany. Im saying my ini is set to Geany and it doesnt work. also my tool table wont open.

Geany is not the same as geany in Linux, mind the upper case.
In the ini it should be geany all lower case The first line starts OK, the second shows the result above.