Pluma (pluma) is a small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment. It started as a fork of Gedit (at version 2.30) in 2011, back then the text editor for the GNOME 2 environment.
Pluma is part of MATE and uses the latest GTK+ and MATE libraries. Complete MATE integration is featured, with support for Drag and Drop from Caja (the MATE file manager), the use of the MATE help system, the MATE Virtual File System and the MATE print framework.
Pluma uses a Multiple Document Interface, which lets you edit more than one document at the same time.
Pluma supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your average text editor (plugins being the most notable of these).
Although new features are always under development, currently Pluma has:
Some of the plugins, packaged and installed with Pluma include, among others:
Other external plugins are also available.
Pluma is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, see the file 'COPYING' for more information.
The official web site is:
https://mate-desktop.org/
You can download the latest Pluma tarball from:
https://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/
Pluma requires GTK+ (>= 3.22) and GtkSourceView (>= 4.0.2). For a complete list of dependencies see the build.yml.
Warning: This procedure doesn't install in a separate prefix, so it may overwrite your system binaries.
Simple install procedure:
$ git submodule update --init --recursive # Init git submodules
$ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh # Copy configuration requirements
$ ./configure # Build configuration
$ make # Build
[ Become root if necessary ]
$ make install # Installation
For installation to a separate prefix change the above ./configure
command to
$ ./configure --prefix=/an/other/path
To get more information type the command below:
$ ./configure --help
Pluma has several test that can be run after compilation. Run them by issueing "make check". However there are a couple of requirements that need to be satisfied before they will pass.
If test fail and you have setup the above correctly then please file a bug report as described below.
Bugs should be reported to the MATE bug tracking system:
https://github.com/mate-desktop/Pluma/issues
You will need to create an account for yourself.
In the bug report please include:
Information about your system. For instance:
And anything else you think is relevant. For example:
How to reproduce the bug.
If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the crash occurred.
Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not necessary. If you do send a stack trace, and the error is an X error, it will be more useful if the stack trace is produced running the test program with the --sync
command line option.
Patches should also be submitted to https://github.com/mate-desktop/pluma, preferably via pull requests.
The Pluma team.