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TEA

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TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • RU flagRussia

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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Features

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  1.  Syntax Highlighting
  2.  C++
  3.  Tabbed interface
  4.  Built-in File Manager
  5.  Built-in Image converter
  6.  Built-in Image viewer
  7.  Built-in archiver

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TEA information

  • Developed by

    RU flagPeter Semiletov

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  93 Stars
  •  13 Forks
  •  6 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 31, 2025 
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What is TEA?

TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

Features (for Qt branch):

  • Small size
  • Support for write: plain text
  • Support for read: plain text, FB2, EPUB, ODT, RTF, DOCX, Abiword, KWord KWD, SWX (old OpenOffice.org format), PDF, DJVU
  • Built-in MC-like file manager
  • Spellchecker (using the aspell or/and Hunspell)
  • Tabbed layout engine
  • Syntax highlighting for C, C++, Bash script, BASIC, C#, D, Fortran, Java, LilyPond, Lout, Lua, NASM, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PO (gettext), Python, Seed7, TeX/LaTeX, Vala, Verilog, XML, HTML, XHTML, Dokuwiki, MediaWiki.
  • Multiply encodings support
  • In-text labels (markers) support
  • Code snippets and templates support
  • Scripts (Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash, 2/Rexx, Lua, Windows batch)
  • Hotkeys customizations
  • "Open at cursor"-function for HTML-files and images
  • Misc HTML tools
  • Dokuwiki, MediaWiki, Docbook, LaTeX, Lout, Markdown editing tools
  • Preview in external browsers
  • String-handling functions such as sorting, reverse, format killing, trimming, filtering, conversions, text table processing etc.
  • Bookmarks
  • Morse code translator
  • Calendar/organizer
  • Themes and palettes support
  • Drag'n'drop support (with text files and pictures)
  • Built-in image viewer (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WBMP, BMP, TIFF, TGA, etc.)
  • Built-in image converter and resizer
  • Built-in ZIP packer/unpacker with file names charset selector
  • RMS calculation for 16 bit PCM WAV's

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