Copyright © 2007 Nick Schermer
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OCtober 2007
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Mousepad is the default text editor for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It has been design to be a lightweight editor you would use for basic file editing. Therefore Mousepad starts quickly, but also has features like editing multiple documents, vertical selection, type-ahead search, full tab drag and drop and much more.
Mousepad started as a fork of Leafpad to provide printing support using Xfprint, but as of version 0.3 is has been completely rewritten to add support for tabs and DBus. Although the rewrite added a lot of new features, it is still as fast as the Leafpad based fork and therefore fits perfectly in the Xfce philosophy.