Pluma is a small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment. It started as a fork of Gedit (at version 2.30) in 2011, back then the text editor for the GNOME 2 environment.
Complete MATE integration is featured, with support for drag and drop from Caja (the MATE file manager), the use of the MATE help system, the MATE Virtual File System and the MATE print framework.
Pluma uses a Multiple Document Interface, which lets you edit more than one document at the same time.
Pluma supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your average text editor (plugins being the most notable of these).
Key Features
- Complete support for UTF-8 text.
- Syntax highlighting.
- Support for editing remote files.
- Search and replace.
- Printing and print previewing Support.
- File Revert.
- A complete preferences interface.
- Configurable Plugin system including:
- Spell checker – Checks the spelling of the current document
- File Browser – Easy file access from the side pane
- Sort – Sorts a document or selected text
- Insert Date/Time – Inserts current date and time at the cursor position
- Tag list – Provides a method to easily insert code tags.
Website: github.com/mate-desktop/pluma
Support:
Developer: Pluma team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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Pluma is my favorite Text Editor. 2nd is Geany.
My text editor of choice is Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping.
My first PC had 4MB of RAM. And Emacs did cause the machine to swap sometimes.