How to install FeatherPad text editor on Ubuntu

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FeatherPad is a free open source text editor for Linux, BSD, Haiku and MacOS. It is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. It is a light weight Qt based text editor developed by Pedram Pourang. FeatherPad comes with syntax highlighting, session management, side-pane mode, auto-saving, spell checking, drag and drop support, instant highlighting and automatic detection of text encoding. It has been the default text editor in Lubuntu, since Lubuntu 18.10.

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How to install Leafpad text editor on ubuntu – Gedit alternative for Ubuntu

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Leafpad is a free and open source lightweight Notepad text editor for linux and BSD systems. It is easy to use notepad or text editor with some basic features and very small in size. Some of the important features are codeset option, auto codeset detection, unlimited Undo and Redo option, auto indent, multi line indent, display line numbers, Drag and Drop support and Printing options. It is the default text editor for LXDE Desktop environment, including Lubuntu up to version 18.04 LTS.

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TED Notepad – free light-weight notepad alternative

TED Notepad is a free easy to use but feature rich text editor for Windows. It comes with simple UI without any toolbars, sidebars and fancy gadgets and 368 text-processing functions some advanced powerful features to save your time. Some of the important features are Word auto-completion, line auto-completion, duplicate portions of lines in coding and HTML/XML Tag generator.

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Notepad++ 6.7.5 released

Notepad++ 6.7.5 is now available for download. What’s new in this release?

Add ghost typing feature.
Fix auto-insert bad behaviour.
Fix the crash issue while user Ctrl + double click on an empty document.
Fix crash bug on loading dropbox settings.
Show progress window instead of a static window during FindInFiles and ReplaceInFiles.
Filename rendered incorrectly on tab bar while it contains ‘&’ character.
Make highlighting (if enabled) follow typing for Incremental search, and add several Incremental search enhancements.
Add the followings notifications for plugins : NPPN_BEFORESHUTDOWN NPPN_CANCELSHUTDOWN NPPN_FILEBEFORERENAME NPPN_FILERENAMECANCEL NPPN_FILERENAMED NPPN_FILEBEFOREDELETE NPPN_FILEDELETEFAILED NPPN_FILEDELETED
Make keystroke ENTER trigger the shortcut editor dialog in Shortcut Mapper.
Allow drop files onto doc switcher and other side panels.
Installer remembers user’s choices of last installation.
Fix Auto-indent in new code block not respecting current EOL bug.
Restore focus to editor when a panel is closed.
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Notepad++ 6.7 released

Notepad++ 6.7 is now available for download. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. What’s new in this version?

Add Smart Indent feature for php/javascript/c/c++/java/c#/Objective-C.
Enhance Auto-insert feature for {} [] (): typing and skipping }, ] and ).
Add new feature of MRU: While current file is closed the previous activated file will be activated.
Allow users to disable Easter eggs by adding noEasterEggs.xml in Notepad++ installed directory.
Make “Text Direction RTL” command and “Text Direction LTR” command work without reloading file.
Add C# and enhance php parser in Function List.
Make document map matches the current text direction (RTL/LTR).
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Notepad++ 6.5 released

Notepad++ 6.5 is now available for download. Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. What’s new in this version?

Update Scintilla to 3.3.4
Add CoffeeScript support.
Add multi-paste support for multi-selection/column mode.
Add new feature: auto-close parentheses, quotes, bracket and matched xml/html tag.
Add php, perl, xml, batch, ini and nsis for the build-in function list.
Add User Defined Languages support for the build-in function list.
Add reload feature in function list.
Fix a minor problem of file extension support for the build-in function list.
Fix a tag matching bug by disabling tag matching inside PHP code blocks.
Fix right-to-left text after closing document map bug.
Fix cancelling shutdown make Notepad++ quit w/o saving files bug.
Enhance “Begin/End select” feature: Check “Begin/End select” menu item when active.
Enhance Mark all feature: 2 options “Match case” and “Match whole word only” in Find/Replace dialog.
Fix a Replace dialog status bar display problem by clearing status bar before processing any action.
Add new feature: if Notepad++ is running as administrator, display this info on the title bar.
Rename “block comment” to “Single line comment” and “stream comment” to “block comment”.
Remove invalid command “Online Documentation”.
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Notepad++ 6.4.5 released

Fix a regression on recent files history.
Fix a crash issue while there’s missing tag in functionList.xml.
Fix UTF-8 (w/o BOM) detection bug.
Fix line numbers space problem while folding.
Fix opening file in Notepad++ makes Aero-snapped cancelled.
Change behaviour: statusbar reports the number of selected characters instead of number of bytes now.
Add “close all tab to left” and “close all tab to right” features.
Add direct access to the tab feature (Ctrl + NumPad).
Fix macro replaying crash issue.
Add insert blank line above/below the current line feature(Ctrl+Alt+Enter/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Enter respectively).
Add selection between matching braces feature.
Fix opening file problem from the network drive.
Fix C++ class (*.h) parsing problem in function list while there is comment on the beginning of document.
Enhance function list’s C/C++ parser.
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