Mousepad
Lighweight text editor for Xfce
What is Mousepad?
A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins. Features:
- Complete support for UTF-8 text
- Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text
- Search and Replace
- Font selection
- Word Wrap
- Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some codesets)
- Infinite Undo/Redo
- Auto Indent
- Multi-line Indent
- Drag and Drop
- Printing
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Mousepad Features
Mousepad information
Supported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
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Lightweight and fast. More suitable for editing text files than coding.
Positive comment• ago
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riveravaldez
For a simple use it does almost the same (from the mere start, no settings needed).
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Tags
- Xfce
- Highlighting
- Code Editor
- xfce-project
- notepad
- Text Editor
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DevelopmentLists containing Mousepad
Debian Elementary XFCE: Best Apps for a balanced system • Raspberry Pi Essentials • Programs i use ussualy (Linux)Recent user activities on Mousepad
POX added Mousepad as alternative(s) to Squircle IDE- azumukupoe addedaz
azumukupoe added Mousepad as alternative(s) to Caret-T
Its a very nice little editor. Its perfect for simple text graphics, and its ability to change text font, allows to view pseudographics as well. It has tabbed window support, printing, syntax highlighting.
However, its not always fit for the job, if you have multiple encodings. It allows to detect and open text in different encoding with live preview, as well as change string endings (Linux, Mac, Windows styles). BUT, it does not allow to save in other encoding. Open yes, create new (UTF8) yes, paste and save as UTF8 yes. But live conversion and export in other encoding dont work - and that might be crucial for text editing; unless one only uses one encodoing, or recodes text using different tool.
Mousepad is a simple and quick text editor, and it’s part of the Xfce desktop environment, so it gets installed with Xubuntu. Mousepad is slim and quick and it is perfect for simple text writing tasks. But it is not a beauty, I have to say, and for writing long texts, I’d rather use a word processing application.