Leafpad - REPLACE function simply appends, instead of replacing

suse_rasputin · July 1, 2021, 9:49am

Hy!

Just used

Leafpad 0.8.18.1

to replace a string in a log file, but instead of replacing, the original AND the new content is now present in the file.

Replace function broken in Leafpad?

tannington · July 1, 2021, 11:12am

Seems you are not alone…

Maybe time to consider another editor

tallowwood · July 1, 2021, 8:28pm

Leafpad is a treasure - a clean and simple gui text editor. I am ever grateful to it’s developers.

Best let the developers know.

Following tannington’s helpful link, and reading down, I see:
"Claimed fixed:

I suspect some distros are using a patched version that fixes things."

Go openSUSE, be kind and have fun.

tannington · July 2, 2021, 10:45am

If you did want an alternative, then another lightweight text editor worth a look could be Featherpad GitHub - tsujan/FeatherPad: Lightweight Qt Plain-Text Editor for Linux