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Editra — A multi-platform text editor

August 12th, 2008 · Posted by Toor · 10 Comments

Editra is a very great multi-platform text editor. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Currently, the latest version of Editra is 0.3.38.

Editra has the following features (from website):

  • Auto-Completion/Calltips (Python)
  • Auto-Indent
  • Bidirectional Find/Replace w\Regular Expression Support
  • Block (Un)Commenting
  • Block (Un)Indenting
  • Bracket Highlighting
  • Builtin Plugin Downloader/Installer
  • Clipboard Support (Copy/Paste/ect…)
  • Code Folding
  • Command Mode
  • Drag and Drop (tabs/file opening/text)
  • Export to Html/LaTeX/Rtf
  • Editable User Profiles
  • Extensible with plugins
  • File History
  • File Management (FileBrowser Plugin)
  • Highlight Style Editor
  • Indentation Guides
  • Integrated Python Shell (PyShell Plugin)
  • Language Keyword Helper
  • Line Bookmarking
  • Line Edit Commands (Join, Transpose, ect…)
  • Multilingual Interface
  • Multiple Top Level Windows
  • Run Scripts (Launch Plugin)
  • Session Saving
  • Source Control Management (Project Plugin)
  • Syntax Highlighting (60+ Languages)
  • Tabbed Windows
  • Themeable Icons
  • Transparency Support
  • Undo/Redo
  • UTF-7/UTF-8(default)/UTF-16 Support
  • Vi Keybinding Support
  • Word Wrap
  • Workspace View Management
  • Zoom In/Out

How to install

To install Editra on Ubuntu 8.04, you can execute the following steps:

  1. Installing wxpython and setuptools:
    sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 python-setuptools
  2. Download Editor 0.3.38 for Linux here and save to your desktop.
  3. Open your terminal, go to Desktop folder:
    cd ~/Desktop
    tar zxvf Editra-0.3.38.tar.gz
  4. Installing Editra:

    cd Editra-0.3.38
    sudo python setup.py install

Now you can launch Editra by typing “Editra” in terminal.

Editra

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10 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Per Nissilä // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:06 am

    Editra looks cool but im still waiting for something more like textmate on the mac!

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  • 7 Myke // Aug 14, 2008 at 8:41 am

    Thanks for sharing!

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  • 10 Mikko // Aug 16, 2008 at 12:17 am

    Is there any reason to change from Emacs to Editra?

    Greetings,

    Mikko / Lightweight Linux

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