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Pluma

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Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • Linux  Part of MATE Desktop Environment
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4.5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Syntax Highlighting
  2.  Tabbed interface
  3.  Support for Unicode
  4.  Automatic Indentation

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  • Developed by

    MATE Desktop Environment

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5

  • Alternatives

    159 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  163 Stars
  •  66 Forks
  •  114 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 11, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Pluma, and it has gotten 18 likes

Pluma was added to AlternativeTo by at on Nov 25, 2013 and this page was last updated Jun 4, 2021.

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Top Positive Comment
John Fastman
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Pluma is a text editor that comes with the MATE desktop on various Linux distributions. It's very simple but functional. It's hard not to give it a positive review since it aims only at one thing and it does that very well.

A NOTE ABOUT THE "FREE" LICENCE:

The Alternativeto.net page for Pluma says it is "free". This is ambiguous because "Free" can mean two different things:

  • you don't pay for it (free as in beer)
  • it is free as a bird (which also means you don't pay for it)

Pluma is both. Most people unfamiliar with software development and licencing will assume Pluma is free in the sense of free beer. But in actual fact Pluma is distributed under GNU General Public Licence, which means you neither have to play for Pluma nor worry that someone is making money at your expense from it nor that the code is restricted. It's not, you can download it, look at it and modify it at will. Great stuff.

What is Pluma?

Pluma, fork of gedit icon gedit , is a text editor part of MATE icon MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. Pluma is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or MDI). Pluma fully supports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding in edited files. Its core feature set includes syntax highlighting of source code, auto indentation and printing and print preview support.

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