Top 15 Leafpad Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.

Features:

Codeset option (Some OpenI18N registered)
Auto codeset detection (UTF-8 and some codesets)
Unlimitted Undo/Redo
Auto/Multi-line Indent
Display line numbers
Drag and Drop
Printing

1. Mousepad

Mousepad 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......

2. EverEdit

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3. Vim

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4. Jane

Jane Jane is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours: those who try this might discover nice features they'll soon don't want to miss anymore.Jane features:- Shell integration (double-click ascii files......

5. Coastline

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6. Xarchiver

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7. EditPad Lite

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8. Audacious

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9. Thunderpad

Thunderpad Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them. Additionally, Thunderpad supports syntax highlighting, word count, line count and comes with various color schemes.FeaturesSimple......

10. PIDA

PIDA PIDA is an IDE (integrated development environment).PIDA is different from other IDEs in that it will use the toolsyou already have available rather than attempting to reinvent each one. PIDA is written in Python with the PyGTK toolkit, and although is designed to be used to program in any language,......

11. medit

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12. NFOPad

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13. Geany

Geany Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires......

14. MadEdit

MadEdit MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets. MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions, e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings (UTF8/16/32,Big5,GBK...) and WordCount. FeaturesMadEdit can run under Linux, FreeBSD and MS-Windows platforms.Edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes.In Hex-Mode, MadEdit......

15. Heraia

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