Lightest text editor with tabs?

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Which is the lightest GUI text editor in Ubuntu that supports tabbed windows? I'm looking for a Windows Notepad replacement, but with tabs support.

I have no need for syntax highlighting or any other features.

@A.B. Should start quickly.
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Aug 17, 2015 at 5:14 — Ashwin Nanjappa, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:14

Ósanwe · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-17 03:37:02Z

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Standard text editor in Ubuntu (gedit) supports tabs.

answered Aug 17, 2015 at 3:37

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fosslinux · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-17 03:53:38Z

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Geany

Geany is a famous cross platform text editors and lot of Ubuntu users use it. You can install Geany from the Ubuntu Software Center.

Or run :

sudo apt-get install geany

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answered Aug 17, 2015 at 3:47

Ravan

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No, that is not good because of the above answer.
– fosslinux
Aug 17, 2015 at 3:54
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@ColDue96 can you explain, why this answer isn't good as the gedit answer?
– A.B.
Aug 17, 2015 at 5:20
Geany is based on the same engine as notepad++ in case anyone's interested. And SciTE, and notepad2 and a bunch of others. Geany seems to be the most well respected of those, other than maybe Notepad++ which is Windows only
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Bharathi Mohan · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-18 07:04:20Z

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There is ubuntu alternative for notepad++

To install `notepadqq run the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install notepadqq

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answered Aug 18, 2016 at 5:45

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