FeatherPad

Lightweight Qt plain text editor

Utilities

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FeatherPad in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own featherpad package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so FeatherPad should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Utilities work with the files in your Linux home folder and, once Device files is granted, with your Android folders too. More about utilities in Breadstick.

About FeatherPad

From the project's description

FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment and has:

  • Drag-and-drop support, including tab detachment and attachment
  • X11 virtual desktop awareness (using tabs on current desktop but opening a new window on another)
  • An optionally permanent search-bar with a different search entry for each tab
  • Instant highlighting of found matches when searching
  • A docked window for text replacement
  • Support for showing line numbers and jumping to a specific line
  • Optional selection highlighting
  • Syntax highlighting for common programming languages
  • Ability to open URLs with appropriate applications
  • Session management
  • Side-pane mode
  • Auto-saving
  • Spell checking with Hunspell
  • Printing
  • Text zooming
  • Appropriate but non-interrupting prompts
  • Other features that can be found in its settings, on its menus or when it is actually used.

From the project's AppStream metadata in Debian's featherpad package, under CC0-1.0.

Developer
Pedram Pourang, a.k.a. Tsu Jan
Keywords
Editor, Plaintext, Text
Menu categories
Text editors, Utilities

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