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typobuster – lightweight text editor

typobuster is a simplified text editor with a wide selection of transformations and automatic correction of common typos.

typobuster is supposed to focus on plain text and contain the tools that an average user needs.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Customizable.
  • Syntax highlighting for a wide range of programming languages.
  • Show line numbers, show whitespaces, highlight current row, highlight matching brackets, wrap lines.
  • Web cleanup – fix hyphens, quotes, punctuation marks, spaces, add spaces after punctuation marks, and end-of-line characters.
  • Transformations.
  • Sort rows (ascending and descending).
  • Remove empty rows.
  • Remove non-ASCII characters.

Website: github.com/nwg-piotr/typobuster
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Developer: Piotr Miller
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

typobuster in action

typobuster is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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