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Metapad text-editor upgrades to version 2.0

Metapad is the next component of the upcoming PostX Gnu/Linux release (TBA) to get upgrades.

Features:

  • Line Numbers: Clearly visualized line numbers next to your text.
  • Toolbar: A toolbar for quick actions such as undo, redo, save, open, print, and font selection.
  • Styling: Custom styling for the editor and the application, done via CSS styling. Icons are from Adwaita icons theme. Without icons a button with a text will be shown.
  • Font Change: Quickly change the font of the selected text.
  • Open/Save Dialog: Intuitive dialogs for opening and saving your files.
  • Printing: A print preview and printing capability.
  • Protection: Before closing or opening new files, a warning is given if there are unsaved changes.

The code is available on Github: https://github.com/postman721/Metapad/tree/master

Metapad text-editor upgrades into version 1.6

Metapad text-editor has been upgraded to version 1.6.

This is mainly a bug fix release. Style is now consistent. I also added toggle hide button for menus. This could be used to maximize writing space.

Here is a screenshot.

Metapad version 1.6.

The code along with further instructions are on Metapad´s Github page.

Metapad text-editor v.1.2 arrives

Metapad is a text-editor written with Python and QT5. It contains about 204 lines of heavily commented code. Metapad will be the default text-editor of the PostX Gnu/Linux 0.5(TBA).

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