FeatherPad
Original author(s) | Pedram Pourang (Tsu Jan) |
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Initial release | 2016 |
Stable release | 1.4.1[1]
/ 12 June 2023 |
Written in | Haiku OS, macOS |
Available in | 22 languages |
Type | Text editor |
License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
Website | github |
FeatherPad is a
FeatherPad has been the default text editor in
Development
Pourang started the project to fill a perceived gap in available text editors. He identified that many feature-rich text editors are RAM-intensive and even then lack key features.[6]
Development of FeatherPad started in 2016, with the first public release version 0.5.8. The first version included syntax highlighting and was written in GTK. With the introduction of GTK 3 the application was rewritten, but Pourang found Qt more flexible and it was rewritten in C++ and ported to Qt starting with version 0.6 in April 2017. FeatherPad added spell checking using Hunspell, starting with version 0.11.0, released in August 2019.[2][6][10]
FeatherPad has been translated into 21 different languages in addition to English.[2]
Haiku OS support was written by Khallebal at GitHub and support for macOS was added by Pavel Shlyak.[2]
Future development goals for FeatherPad include
Features
FeatherPad includes text
The text editor is highly customizable and by default has a wide range of
There is an unofficial
Reception
A review in Full Circle in August 2019 noted, "FeatherPad has obviously been designed for software developers, but it is also a good text editor for any general user to write plain text documents or web pages on." The review noted its relatively low RAM use compared to more full-featured text editors like jEdit and gedit. It also praised its extensive, if non-standard keyboard shortcuts, noting, "the keyboard shortcuts are all nicely explained in the menus, however, and, once learned, FeatherPad becomes very fast to use."[5]
Scott Nesbitt, writing in March 2020, on
See also
References
- ^ "Release 1.4.1".
- ^ a b c d Tsu Jan (31 August 2019). "FeatherPad - Lightweight Qt5 Plain-Text Editor for Linux". GitHub. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Debian - Details of package featherpad in buster". packages.debian.org. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "FreshPorts - editors/featherpad: Lightweight Qt5 plain-text editor". www.freshports.org. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Hunt, Adam (30 August 2019). "Review - FeatherPad" (PDF). Full circle magazine Issue 148, pages 36-37. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ Full Circle magazine. Archived from the original(PDF) on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ^ Ashar, Mahmudin. "Lubuntu 18.04 and 18.10: Between LXDE and LXQt". ubuntubuzz.com. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "Lubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) Released! | Lubuntu". lubuntu.me. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "featherpad package: Ubuntu". launchpad.net. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ a b Tsu Jan (18 March 2017). "Releases". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "Chapter 2.4.2 Featherpad — Lubuntu Manual 19.04 documentation". manual.lubuntu.me. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "Install FeatherPad (Unofficial) for Linux using the Snap Store". Snapcraft. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ Nesbitt, Scott (30 March 2020). "3 lightweight text editors for Linux". opensource.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.