Mousepad

A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

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Xfce

A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easytouse and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.Features:* Complete support for UTF8 text* Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text* Search and Replace* Font selection* Word Wrap* Auto character coding detection (UTF8 and some codesets)* Infinite Undo/Redo* Auto Indent* Multiline Indent* Drag and Drop* Printing

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Tabbed interface Lightweight Drag n drop

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