I'm looking for a really light text editor (with few dependencies and low RAM usage) to put inside LXQt package, so Qt dependency is not a problem.
LeafPad -> the lightest so far, but new LXQt version (0.11.1) has broken drag 'n drop functionality and DEVs are not willing to fix it.
MousePad -> lots of dependencies and usability problems.
JuffEd -> has encoding problems and a heavy dependency: libqt5scintilla2 (3.5 mb).
FeatherPad -> no dependencies (except for Qt), but has some usability problems (for instance: no common shortcuts, and no tab indent).
If anyone has a better suggestion, it would be great
Light text editor recommendations
Re: Light text editor recommendations
I've never used but i've seen people mention Scribes as an alternative to Gedit.
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Re: Light text editor recommendations
mcedit ?
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Re: Light text editor recommendations
theres:
Beaver .... gtk2 tho..
Tea ... builds with Qt5 , small but lots of features(even has a builtin filemanager)... http://semiletov.org/tea/#about
there is a slackbuild, bit out of date, maybe could be updated.. https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2 ... pment/tea/
Beaver .... gtk2 tho..
Tea ... builds with Qt5 , small but lots of features(even has a builtin filemanager)... http://semiletov.org/tea/#about
there is a slackbuild, bit out of date, maybe could be updated.. https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2 ... pment/tea/
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Re: Light text editor recommendations
@Evan, Scribes depends on Python and, even activating Python, I couldn't manage to put Scribes to run here
@Bogomips, sorry, but I don't want a terminal text editor
@ncmprhnsbl, Tea has encoding detection problems and the interface doesn't seem flexible (the defaults are terrible)
Thanks, guys!
@Bogomips, sorry, but I don't want a terminal text editor
@ncmprhnsbl, Tea has encoding detection problems and the interface doesn't seem flexible (the defaults are terrible)
Thanks, guys!
Re: Light text editor recommendations
List of Qt Applications
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?titl ... xt_Editors
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?titl ... xt_Editors
Don't know if any of these are worth trying?FeatherPad - Lightweight Qt5 Plain-Text Editor for Linux
Notepadqq - a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop.
Juffed - text editor (QtDesktop)
Tea - text editor with an ultimate small size that provides you hundreds of functions.
Qedit - A modern, standalone and multi-purpose text editor.
Vim-qt - An experimental Qt gui for Vim
Texmaker - latex editor
TeXstudio - A LaTeX editor originally based on Texmaker
FocusWriter - A simple fullscreen word processor
Lyx - An advanced WYSIWYM document processor & LaTeX front-end
Plume Creator - With Plume Creator, organize your writing projects ! Scenes, notes, characters,... Rich Text editing, full screen editing and multiple projects supported.
mdiedit - Simple text editor with MDI interface. Written in qt5.
onlyoffice - The most complete and feature-rich office and productivity suite
Re: Light text editor recommendations
Beaver and mdiedit have the minimalist approach I'm looking for, but unfortunately they have encoding detection problems and they lack drag 'n drop and can't show line numbers.
I think I'll stick with FeatherPad for now. Maybe I'll get the code and change it in order to fix some shortcuts.
I think I'll stick with FeatherPad for now. Maybe I'll get the code and change it in order to fix some shortcuts.