xed is a small and lightweight text editor. xed supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your typical text editor including plugins. The plugins allow a variety of tasks related to text editing.
Key Features
- Complete support for UTF-8 text
- Syntax highlighting
- Support for editing remote files
- Search and Replace
- Printing and Print Previewing Support
- File Revert
- A complete preferences interface
- Configurable Plugin system, with optional python support
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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