FeatherPad

FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt5 plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment and has:

• Drag-and-drop support, including tab detachment and attachment

• X11 virtual desktop awareness (using tabs on current desktop but opening a new window on another)

• An optionally permanent search-bar with a different search entry for each tab

• Instant highlighting of found matches when searching

• A docked window for text replacement

• Support for showing line numbers and jumping to a specific line

• Optional selection highlighting

• Automatic detection of text encoding as far as possible and optional saving with encoding

• Syntax highlighting for common programming languages

• Ability to open URLs with appropriate applications

• Session management

• Side-pane mode

• Auto-saving

• Spell checking with Hunspell

• Printing

• Text zooming

• Appropriate but non-interrupting prompts

• Other features that can be found in its settings, on its menus or when it is actually used.