FeatherPad
FeatherPad (by Pedram Pourang, a.k.a. Tsu Jan tsujan2000@gmail.com) is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment and has:
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Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Syntax Highlighting
- Simple text editor
- QT Based
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Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is FeatherPad?
FeatherPad (by Pedram Pourang, a.k.a. Tsu Jan tsujan2000@gmail.com) is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment and has: · Drag-and-drop support, including tab detachment and attachment; · X11 virtual desktop awareness (using tabs on current desktop but opening a new window on another); · An optionally permanent search-bar with a different search entry for each tab; · Instant highlighting of found matches when searching; · A docked window for text replacement; · Support for showing line numbers and jumping to a specific line; · Optional selection highlighting; · Automatic detection of text encoding as far as possible and optional saving with encoding; · Syntax highlighting for common programming languages; · Ability to open URLs with appropriate applications; · Session management; · Side-pane mode; · Auto-saving; · Spell checking with Hunspell; · Printing; · Text zooming; · Appropriate but non-interrupting prompts; and · Other features that can be found in its settings, on its menus or when it is actually used.
Comments and Reviews
I started using FeatherPad on a low-end Linux machine, and was impressed with its speed, stability, and a feature set with just enough to make it practical as my main text editor. (Search of course, but also syntax highlighting, sorting lines within a file, and quickly switching word-wrap on and off.) It's more stable (and faster!) than Gnome Text Editor and more capable than Gedit. I've since set it as my default on my main Linux system.