Top 15 Mousepad Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.
Features:
* Complete support for UTF-8 text
* Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text
* Search and Replace
* Font selection
* Word Wrap
* Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some codesets)
* Infinite Undo/Redo
* Auto Indent
* Multi-line Indent
* Drag and Drop
* Printing

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