HowTo: LeafPad Extremely Fast Text File Editor

Leafpad is a extremely simple and extremely fast GTK+ lightweight text editor that emphasizes on speed and simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. Leafpad is simple to use, is easily compiled, requires few libraries, and starts up quickly.

Leafpad offers an interface similar to Notepad. Leafpad aims to be lighter than GEdit & KWrite, and to be as useful as them. Leafpad is available in Linux and BSD distros. Leafpad uses a single window interface on files being created and edited compared to other file editors, which implements multiple tabbed files editing capabilities. Any new leaftab files would be done in a new separate leafpad window and program process.

Currently Leafpad has the following features:

* Codeset option (Some OpenI18N registered)
* Auto codeset detection (UTF-8 and some codesets)
* Unlimitted Undo/Redo
* Auto/Multi-line Indent
* Display line numbers
* Drag and Drop
* Printing


LeafPad Installation

Leafpad is available from Fedora repo and can be installed easily via yum. Yum downloads a nifty 90K to install leafpad package. Leafpad does not require any package dependencies by default installation as well.

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# yum -y install leafpad
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LeafPad Screenshot




Leafpad is extremely fast compared to others when being launched! Try it.

HTH