Janus is a graphical notepad-style editor designed specifically for Linux. It maintains a conventional editing interface while adding a few capabilities that are unusual in small desktop text editors.
Most notably, Janus can handle both ordinary UTF-8 text and binary data. This makes it useful for straightforward text work while also allowing files that do not fit a normal text-only workflow to be inspected and altered.
The application does not attempt to become a project-oriented programming environment. Instead, it concentrates on familiar editing commands, optional source highlighting and a native desktop interface. It is therefore suitable for notes, configuration files and quick examination of other file types.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- UTF-8 text editing.
- Binary file editing.
- Optional syntax highlighting for source files.
- Undo and redo.
- Common keyboard shortcuts for editing operations.
- Standard clipboard operations.
- Printing support.
- Native graphical interface for Linux.
- Translations include Spanish, French and German.
- Suitable for quick editing without the project-management features of an IDE.
- Can be used for ordinary prose and configuration work as well as lower-level file inspection.
Website: github.com/gholmann16/janus
Support:
Developer: gholmann16
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Janus is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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