Linux Text Editor Trials

Features Desired

• x.org gui interface
• No time-sync file overwrite issues on SMB network shares
• Spell Check
• Interface color schemes
• Tabbed files

Mint 20

sed

default editor, only has the awful hamburger menu.

mousepad

buggy. has tabbed interface and standard menu bar. no spell checker. sometimes won't save text files complaining of a stream error.

xed aka text editor

tabbed and standard menu bar. Annoying habit of complaining about file has changed when file resides on SMB share.

medit aka mooedit

medit is now mooedit. not in mint repository. medit-1.2.0.tar.bz2 is current for this distribution. without mint package installation wont be integrated into mint menus.

cudatext

disqualified, flathub only in software manager.

nedit

motif based. won't install from repository, returns error.

featherpad

FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt5 plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment and comes with all features one would expect in a modern editor.

legacy (older trials)

medit

• + better handling of saving to network share
• - lacks spell check
• - only uses the color scheme of the windows manager
• + tabbed open files
• + easy install direct from mint repository with apt
• + gtk native

xfw

xfw is X File Write