Leafpad

Leafpad
	Screenshot of Leafpad, taken on an Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) installation.
Developer(s)	Tarot Osuji
Initial release	11 November 2004
Stable release	0.8.18.1 / 23 December 2010
Written in	GTK+
Operating system	Linux, BSD, Maemo
Available in	English, Esperanto, Galician, Catalan, Finnish, French, Hungarian
Type	Text editor
License	GNU GPLv2+
Website	tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/

Leafpad is an open source text editor for Linux, BSD, and Maemo. Created with the focus of being a lightweight text editor with minimal dependencies, it is designed to be simple and easy-to-compile. Leafpad is the default text editor for both the LXDE^[2] Desktop environment and Xubuntu 11.10^[3] and 12.04.^[4]

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Leafpad is free software.^[5]

Features

Leafpad's features include a codeset option, auto codeset detection, an unlimited Undo/Redo feature,^[6] and drag and drop capabilities.^[7]

Leafpad has a small footprint compared to editors such as gedit or Kate.^[6]^[8]

^ "The leafpad textual domain". translationproject.org. 2015-08-09. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
^ "LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment". LXDE Project. Sourceforge. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
^ "Information about Xbuntu 11.10". Ubuntu Wiki. Ubuntu. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
^ "Xubuntu 12.04 released". Canonical. 26 April 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
^ "Leafpad". tarot.freeshell.org. 23 December 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
^ ^a ^b Jack M. Germain (7 April 2010). "gEdit and Leafpad Make a Good Text-Editing Team". LinuxInsider. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
^ Jack Wallen (1 May 2010). "Leafpad: Yet another Linux text editor". ghacks.net. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
^ Danny Stieben (2 May 2011). "Leafpad – An Ultra-Lightweight Text Editor". MakeUseOf. Retrieved 18 October 2011.

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