Alternatives to Pluma
The small, lightweight UTF-8 text editor of the MATE desktop environment, forked from Gedit. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Pluma
The small, lightweight UTF-8 text editor of the MATE desktop environment, forked from Gedit.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pluma.
gedit
A general-purpose text editor for Linux that is easy to learn and integrates with GNOME.
gedit is the upstream editor Pluma was forked from, integrated with the GNOME desktop rather than MATE, with optional programming features.
Xed
A small, lightweight GTK3 text editor from Linux Mint that works across desktop environments.
Xed is Linux Mint's lightweight GTK3 editor that works across desktop environments, with plugins and a traditional menu and toolbar interface similar to Pluma.
Mousepad
A simple, fast text editor for the Xfce desktop, meant for quickly editing text files.
Mousepad is the Xfce desktop's simple GTK text editor with optional plugins and extra settings through Dconf, aimed at quick edits of text and config files.
FeatherPad
A lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux that works independently of any desktop environment.
FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt text editor for Linux that works independently of any desktop environment, with detachable tabs and an optional permanent search bar.
GNOME Text Editor
A simple text editor for the GNOME desktop focused on a pleasing default experience.
GNOME Text Editor is a simple editor with clean defaults and syntax highlighting built for the GNOME desktop, installable from Flathub.
Kate
KDE's text editor: syntax highlighting for over 400 languages, split views, multi-cursor editing and an embedded terminal.
Kate is KDE's more capable editor with multi-cursor editing, split views and an embedded terminal, but it pulls in KDE Frameworks as a large dependency.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
