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Text Editor 41.alpha1 contains a number of new features and bug
fixes since our previous release.
• Initial support for spell checking
• Tabs provided by libadwaita
• Improved performance while loading documents
• Style improvements to overview map, line spacing, search,
status pages, open popover, and more.
• Additional settings in preferences
• Improved auto-save support
• A new buffer scheduler to improve performance of background
operations.
• Support for opening multiple files at once
• Translation improvements
# Text Editor 40.0
Text Editor for GNOME 40 is here!
This is just a preview release but kick the tires and have some fun!
# Text Editor 3.39.92
This is my initial release of gnome-text-editor.
It started as an application for me to verify the correctness of the
GtkSourceView 5 API (which targets GTK 4). After that it helped me implement
JIT support for GtkSourceView languages. Once that was done it became my
test case while I wrote the GTK 4 macOS backend and revamped the GL renderer.
It is a simple and humble text editor. It does not have all the corner cases
you'd expect from a text editor yet.
Now that you know this is very much a technology preview release only, you
might be tempted to keep your safe data away from it.
## What it can do
• Simple interface designed by the GNOME design team. You can find the
mockups in the traditional places such as:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/app-mockups
• Search and Replace
• Typical GtkSourceView features
• Quick access to recent documents
• Multiple windows
• Automatic discovery of .editorconfig and modelines settings
• Light and dark mode
• Automatically save files to drafts, restored in case of crash
• Can be run from within a Flatpak sandbox and uses document portal
for access to host files.
## What it cannot do
• It doesn't protect you from trying to open really large files
• Support your custom GTK 4 theme
• Auto-completion or snippets
• Plugins
• Custom file encodings
## Building
If you'd like to test it out, the easiest way is to clone the repository
from GNOME Builder and click Run. Additionally, you can find a Flatpak in
the gnome-nightly¹ Flatpak repository.
¹ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nightly
Download
https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-text-editor/41/gnome-text-editor-41.alpha1.tar.xz
(180K)
sha256sum: cf186699ae330ba20c42d5a5580c4528822554dd0282fe644d2ee3847316f0c2
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