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FeatherPad

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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:

The active Qt widget style determines the look and feel of every Qt application.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • Linux
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Syntax Highlighting
  2.  Simple text editor
  3.  QT Based

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FeatherPad information

  • Developed by

    tsujan
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
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  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Office & Productivity

GitHub repository

  •  402 Stars
  •  69 Forks
  •  4 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 10, 2025 
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FeatherPad was added to AlternativeTo by tiemnet on Apr 20, 2022 and this page was last updated Apr 20, 2022.

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Kelson V
  
Top positive commentNov 1, 2022

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.

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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.