Pluma - Text Editor
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Pluma is the official text editor of the MATE desktop environment. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, Pluma is a powerful general purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all sorts of text files.
Pluma features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to Pluma itself.
![](/img/applications/pluma-window.png)
There is no user documentation currently for Pluma. The basic features are similar to those of Gedit (https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/stable/), although the user interface design is different.
The find-and-replace feature in Pluma includes support for regular expressions. This feature is implemented using the PCRE library. Documentation on the regular expression syntax is provided at https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.
If invoking Pluma from the command line (ie terminal window), a number of command-line options can be provided that alter Pluma’s behaviour. See man pluma
for details, or see below.
Simple build procedure:
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr # Build configuration
$ make # Build
For installation to a separate prefix change the above ./autogen.sh
command to:
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/an/other/path
After building the package you may install it:
[ Become root if necessary ]
$ make install # Installation