Leafpad

Leafpad
Screenshot of Leafpad, taken on an Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) installation.
Developer(s) Tarot Osuji
Initial release November 11, 2004 (2004-11-11)
Stable release
0.8.18.1 / December 23, 2010 (2010-12-23)
Written in GTK+
Operating system Linux, BSD, Maemo
Available in English, Esperanto, Galician, Catalan, Finnish, French, Hungarian[1]
Type Text editor
License GNU GPLv2+
Website tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/

Leafpad is an open source text editor for Linux, BSD, and Maemo. Created with the focus of being a lightweight text editor with minimal dependencies, it is designed to be simple and easy-to-compile. Leafpad is the default text editor for LXDE Desktop environment, including Lubuntu, and also Xubuntu.[2][3][4]

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Leafpad is free software.[5]

Features

Leafpad's features include a codeset option, auto codeset detection, an unlimited Undo/Redo feature,[6] and drag and drop capabilities.[7]

Leafpad has a small footprint compared to editors such as gedit or Kate.[6][8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The leafpad textual domain". translationproject.org. 2015-08-09. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  2. ↑ "LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment". LXDE Project. Sourceforge. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Information about Xbuntu 11.10". Ubuntu Wiki. Ubuntu. 13 October 2011. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Xubuntu 12.04 released". Canonical. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Leafpad". tarot.freeshell.org. 23 December 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  6. 1 2 Jack M. Germain (7 April 2010). "gEdit and Leafpad Make a Good Text-Editing Team". LinuxInsider. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  7. ↑ Jack Wallen (1 May 2010). "Leafpad: Yet another Linux text editor". ghacks.net. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  8. ↑ Danny Stieben (2 May 2011). "Leafpad – An Ultra-Lightweight Text Editor". MakeUseOf. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
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