About gnotepad+

What is gnotepad+?

Welcome to gnotepad+. gnotepad+ is an easy-to-use, yet fairly feature-rich, simple HTML and text editor for Unix based systems running X11 and using GTK (the Gimp ToolKit) and/or GNOME. gnotepad+ was designed to have as little bloat as possible, while still providing many of the common features found in a modern GUI-based text editor. It is still fairly light-weight, especially for the features it offers, and aims to remain that way.

The "+" in gnotepad+ is there to differentiate it from other GTK-based text editors which may call themselves "gnotepad". Additionally, gnotepad+ is not intended to be fancy, so it leverages its text editing capabilities on the GTK Text Widget. Hence, if you are looking for a programmers's editor, look for another text editor or help improve the GTK Text Widget.

gnotepad+ is free software (also called open source) developed and distributed under the (GNU) General Public License.

Features

Multiple windows, multiple documents
Complete preferences system (no need to edit any config files)
HTML tag insertions and editing dialogs
Unlimited undo and redo
Recent document menu
Popup Document list
Popup Window list
Popup Messages box
Document autosave
Save window size and position
Drag-and-Drop files between gnotepad+ and other applications
File locking using fcntl() or flock()
Other configurable options: toolbars, document tabs, etc.
Lots of other miscellaneous goodies
Fairly clean code that's actually commented/documented!

Requirements

To use gnotepad+, you need the following:

A Unix-based operating system with X-Windows.
The latest version of GTK correctly installed (both the stable and development versions work). CVS versions are not supported. If you do not have GTK, you can get it at www.gtk.org.
GNOME is optional.
If you want to compile gnotepad+ from source, you will need an ANSI C compiler (e.g., gcc will work).

Author

gnotepad+ is written and maintained by Andy Kahn.

Numerous other people have generously contributed to gnotepad+ development with code patches, bug fixes, bug reports, and testing. They are listed throughout the ChangeLog file found in the source archive.