Scribes – minimalist text editor

Last Updated on October 17, 2022

Scribes is a text editor for GNOME that focuses on streamlining your workflow.

It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated, and also by eliminating factors that prevent the user from focusing on his or her tasks.

Scribes does not try to be a complicated integrated development environment (IDE), or a pseudo IDE. Instead, Scribes focuses exclusively on powerful text processing and manipulation.

Scribes is a spatial and document-centric application. Consequently, it is not designed to use tabbed windows.

Features include:

  • Extensible via Python plugins.
  • Remote editing (ftp, sftp, ssh, samba, webdav, webdavs).
  • Snippets!
  • Automatic word completion.
  • Automatic correction and replacement.
  • Automatic pair character completion and smart insertion.
  • Automatic indentation.
  • Powerful text processing and manipulation functions.
  • Bookmarks and smart navigation.
  • Document Switcher.
  • Syntax colors for over 30 languages.

Website: scribes.sourceforge.net
Support: FAQ, Mailing List
Developer: Pito Salas, Aleksey Gureev, Francois Gossieaux, Jared Cosulich and others
License: GNU GPL v2

Scribes is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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