A leafpad editor alternative under active development?

orschiro · 2014-05-26 17:01:29

Hi there,

I really like the simplicity of the leafpad editor. However, leafpad is not under very active development (latest release from 2012) and I could not find any bugtracker to contribute to.

Do you know of any alternative, preferrably hosted on Github, that features a similar lightweight GUI text editor that is:

* small in dependencies/installation size & cpu/memory consumption
* active in development
* of course available on Arch

Thanks for your suggestions!

Jristz · 2014-05-26 17:28:56

mousepad? and even that is not so much active as leafpad but have a bugtracker so is something...

Trilby · 2014-05-26 17:31:17

mousepad is similar (but better - with syntax highlighting). There is a mousepad package in the repos, or mousepad-git is in the AUR. There has been consistent activity in the git repo (last was 59 minutes ago).

ewaller · 2014-05-26 18:39:38

As both of those are in the AUR, and that a requirement is that is is available on Arch, I am going to move this to AUR issues, Discussion, and PKGBUILD requests.

ninian · 2014-05-26 19:29:12

Trilby wrote:

mousepad is similar (but better - with syntax highlighting).

The other things I particularly like about Mousepad over Leafpad are its ability to open more than one file on the command line (into tabs); and the warning it gives you when you edit a file as root.

stevenhoneyman · 2014-05-26 20:27:28

L3afpad? http://www.calno.com/l3afpad/

orschiro · 2014-05-27 06:34:16

@stevenhoneyman

This is great. Thanks. Developed on Github and comes even with an AUR package.

Ari'osika · 2014-05-27 07:36:38

medit?

It's just a suggestion, and it may or may not be what you're looking for but I found it to be a great replacement for both mousepad AND gedit, (although nothing has yet to be beat notepadd++ under wine).

orschiro · 2014-05-27 08:21:34

@Ari'osika

Thanks but medit is already more suitable for actual programming tasks whereas I love the simplicity to leafpad to just quickly open a text/md file.

drcouzelis · 2014-05-27 13:26:22

orschiro wrote:

I really like the simplicity of the leafpad editor. However, leafpad is not under very active development (latest release from 2012) and I could not find any bugtracker to contribute to.

Is there something wrong with Leafpad? Did you find a bug? Should I stop using it?

Ari'osika wrote:

nothing has yet to beat notepad++ under wine.

Beat notepad++ in what regard? Speed? Functionality? What functionality?

stevenhoneyman · 2014-05-27 13:44:38

Ari'osika wrote:

(although nothing has yet to be beat notepadd++ under wine)

Try Geany if you haven't already, it's a great programmers' editor

orschiro · 2014-05-27 16:18:44

@drcouzelis

Not a bug, no. I wanted to suggest and discuss the option of internal text padding. Personally I find text very hard to read if it does not have a padding from the window borders. Therefore I wanted to hear the developer's opinion on it.

Other than that I guess leafpad is still quite save to be used.

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