Mousepad is a simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.
The project’s target is an editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.
The editor tries to use the latest GTK features available.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Undo/redo.
- Copy, cut, paste including paste from history and paste as column.
- Conversion – for example covert to lowercase, uppercase, title case, and opposite case.
- Increase/decrease indent.
- Search including incremental searches.
- Colour schemes – classic, cobalt, kate, oblivion, solarized dark, solarized light, and tango.
- Line numbers.
- Word wrap, auto indent, configurable tab size, filetype, line ending.
- Viewer mode.
Website: gitlab.xfce.org/apps/mousepad
Support:
Developer: Erik Harrison, Nick Schermer, Benedikt Meurer, Matthew Brush, Gaël Bonithon
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Mousepad is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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