Thursday, February 12, 2015

Introducing ePad - A text editor written in Elementary

I have been working on a number of small tools for the up coming Bodhi Linux 3.0.0 release (find the latest release candidate here) and one than I am working hard to get up to snuff is our text editor ePad. Previous versions of Bodhi Linux has always included the GTK text editor Leafpad by default so my initial release of ePad has the goal of simply covering the same features as Leafpad at the bare minimum.

As of today my ePad source is nearing a 1.0.0 release and the goal of this post is to let folks outside of Bodhi know it exists and that it is ready for them to give it a try. ePad in its current form supports most all of the features you would expect from a text editor: Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, Find, Replace, and displaying Line Numbers. On top of these it also supports opening multiple files in the same application window.

You can find the ePad source on GitHub here and you can report issues you encounter on the GitHub issue tracker here. Please note that ePad requires:

Finally a few screenshots of ePad in a couple different elementary themes:





Cheers,
~Jeff Hoogland
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9 comments:

  1. ThiagoCMCFebruary 12, 2015 at 4:18 PM

    Super Cool!!

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  2. JosephFebruary 13, 2015 at 6:43 AM

    Why yet another text editor?

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    1. JeffHooglandFebruary 13, 2015 at 10:34 AM

      There is another fully functional text editor written in elementary and/or EFLs?

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    2. CFWhitmanFebruary 13, 2015 at 12:39 PM

      It depends on whether you care if your text editor uses a different widget/library set than your desktop. If you don't care, then certainly you can use one of any number of text editors that have been around for a long time. If you'd like it to be thematically consistent with the Enlightenment 17 or later desktop, then I believe this is the first one.

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    3. JosephFebruary 13, 2015 at 3:33 PM

      I was focused on functionality only and was just curios. Your answers make perfect sense from the theme point of view.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2015 at 4:35 PM

    Will this text editor be able to open/edit files as root or with sudo privelages?

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    1. JeffHooglandFebruary 13, 2015 at 6:06 PM

      Already does. Even gives you a notification that you are working as root user: http://i.imgur.com/AsAqAkp.png

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  4. AnonymousApril 1, 2015 at 3:13 AM

    Will there eventually be optional syntax hightlighting in the distant future? Maybe borrowing from another project?

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