Leafpad

Leafpad

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

Leafpad is an open source text editor for Linux, BSD, and Maemo. Designed as a lightweight text editor with minimal dependencies, it is designed to be a simple, easy-to-compile text editor, and is the default text editor for both the LXDE[2] Desktop environment and Xubuntu 11.10.[3]

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Leafpad is free software.[1]

Contents

Features

Leafpad's features include a codeset option, auto codeset detection, an unlimited Undo/Redo feature,[4] and drag and drop capabilities.[5]

Leafpad has a small footprint compared to editors such as gedit or Kate.[4][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Leafpad". tarot.freeshell.org. 23 December 2010. http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  2. ^ "LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment". LXDE Project. Sourceforge. 30 April 2008. http://lxde.sourceforge.net/about.html. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  3. ^ "Information about Xbuntu 11.10". Ubuntu Wiki. Ubuntu. 13 October 2011. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/OneiricOcelot/Final. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  4. ^ a b Jack M. Germain (7 April 2010). "gEdit and Leafpad Make a Good Text-Editing Team". LinuxInsider. http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/69703.html. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  5. ^ Jack Wallen (1 May 2010). "Leafpad: Yet another Linux text editor". ghacks.net. http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/01/leafpad-yet-another-linux-text-editor/. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  6. ^ Danny Stieben (2 May 2011). "Leafpad – An Ultra-Lightweight Text Editor". MakeUseOf. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/leafpad-ultralightweight-text-editor-linux/. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 

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