TEA – text editor

Last Updated on March 24, 2022

TEA is a GTK-based text editor that provides a wide range of text-processing functions (over 100) and syntax highlighting, yet the software has a very small footprint.

It can read the following formats: Plain text, OpenDocument, OpenOffice.org SWX, KWord KWD and AbiWord.

TEA can handle all charsets that Linux supports through the iconv library.

Features include:

• Built-in file manager Kwas.
• Spell checker (using aspell).
• Tabbed layout engine.
• Multiply encodings support.
• Code snippets, sessions and templates support.
• RTF-reader.
• SRT-subtitles preview with Mplayer in a current subtitles position.
• Text analyzer called UNITAZ.
• Hot keys customizations.
• “Open at cursor”-function for HTML-files and images.
• Misc HTML tools.
• Bracket matching.
• Preview in external browsers.
• String-handling functions such as sorting, reverse, format killing, trimming, filtering, conversions etc.
• Bookmarks.
• Drag’n’drop support (with text files and pictures).
• Built-in image viewer (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WBMP, BMP).

Website: sourceforge.net/projects/tea-editor
Support:
Developer: Peter Semiletov and many contributors
License: GNU GPL v3

TEA is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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