Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Airpad – basic GUI text editor

Airpad is a basic, generic graphical text editor.

It has all of the functionalities one would expect.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Opening and saving files (in many encodings).
  • Clipboard: copying, pasting and cutting text.
  • Undoing and redoing of operations.
  • Finding and replacing text.
  • Changing the display font.
  • Text wrap modes.

Website: gitlab.com/NH000/airpad
Support:
Developer: Nikola Hadžić
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Airpad text editor

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


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