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Pluma

Pluma is the official text editor for the MATE desktop. While designed to be simple and easy to use, it is a capable general-purpose editor suitable for programming, configuration editing, and writing. Its plugin system allows advanced features to be added on demand.

Pluma window
Pluma text editor

Features

  • Syntax highlighting — for dozens of programming and markup languages
  • Multiple documents — open files as tabs in a single window
  • Search and replace — with full regular expression (PCRE) support
  • Auto-indentation — keeps indentation level when pressing Enter
  • Bracket matching — highlights matching parentheses and braces
  • Line numbers — toggle in the gutter
  • Current line highlight — visually marks the active line
  • Text wrapping — configurable soft and hard wrap modes
  • Plugin system — extend with spell check, snippets, file browser, terminal, and more

Keyboard Shortcuts

ActionShortcut
New fileCtrl+N
Open fileCtrl+O
SaveCtrl+S
Save asCtrl+Shift+S
FindCtrl+F
Find and replaceCtrl+H
Go to lineCtrl+I
New tabCtrl+T
Close tabCtrl+W
Comment/uncommentCtrl+M / Ctrl+Shift+M
Last updated on • mbkma