The Simple Qt Text Editor is a Microsoft Notepad clone that was developed using Qt 6.5. It supports all functionality that Notepad does on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX, including zoom, copy/paste, find/replace, changing fonts, printing, and multiple languages. The features are intended to be as barebone and as close to Notepad as possible, however a few minor enhancements have been added. The most notable departure is the find/replace functionality, however there is also support for changing line endings or UTF text format, redo functionality, command line features, and a preferences menu that allows setting the time/date output format and a few other default settings.
Extra Large file support (opening files larger than 500MB) is planned in the future, likely using a “paging” scheme. This could also be extended to support more features, including syntax highlighting or Markdown editing.
All of the menu options do the same thing their corresponding options do in Notepad, with a few minor changes. For example:
As such, it is basically like using Notepad.
The Find and Replace functionality is interesting in that there are some hidden shortcut keys that allow for different searching capabilities. The Ctrl+F and Ctrl+R shortcut keys let you find the next string and replace the current string then find the next one respectively. This is good, but there's a need to allow for going backwards, as well as searching for whole words. This can be done with the variant keys, namely Ctrl+D and Ctrl+E for find and replace backwards respectively, and Ctrl+G and Ctrl+T for find and replace whole words respectively. This is a neat UI enhancement that makes it easy to find and replace text in a large text document!
Here is stuff that still needs to be done: