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mLinuxNoteText

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  • Version1.0
  • Size45.2 MB
  • NeedsAndroid 7.0
  • Downloads6
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About mLinuxNoteText

LinuxNoteText, on a phone. Not a text box with a monospace font: the desktop's editing engine, built for Android, with the things a phone needs added around it.

THE SAME ENGINE AS THE DESKTOP Scintilla, in C++, compiled for the phone -- the editing component behind LinuxNoteText, SciTE and Notepad++. The colouring is Lexilla's, which is Scintilla's own. Fifty-three languages, from Python and C to Apache, nginx, Kotlin, Rust and Makefiles. The Python colours are read from the desktop's own theme file, so the two match rather than merely resemble each other.

MORE THAN ONE FILE AT ONCE Open several and move between them. Each keeps its own place on the page, its own caret, and its own undo history. A file already open is switched to rather than opened twice.

FINDING THINGS Find and replace, with match case, whole word and regular expressions. Go to a line by number. Whatever is found is marked along the whole line, not left as a thin tint under your thumb -- and the mark clears when you touch the text, but stays while you type, because the usual reason to find a line is to change it.

BUILT FOR A THUMB A row of keys a phone keyboard does not have: Tab, brackets, braces, quotes, and a trackpad to drag the caret one character at a time -- which is the cure for the worst part of editing code on glass. Hold a key for its alternates. The keyboard itself is one button away, and the button lights while it is up.

READ ONLY WHEN YOU WANT IT A switch, on whatever file is open, either way. With it on, the document refuses every change in Scintilla itself -- not merely a greyed-out button, but the buffer declining to be written to. Useful for reading something you would rather not fat-finger.

IT KEEPS YOUR PLACE Reopen a file and it comes back where you left it, four hundred lines down if that is where you were. Recent files are listed first, because the top of the filesystem is nobody's starting point. It saves on the way out: an Android app is ended without warning, and that is the last moment anything is certain to run.

THE SMALL THINGS Brackets and quotes close themselves, and can be told not to. A new line keeps the indent of the one above. Soft wrap, line numbers, and text size, all as you like them. Light or dark, remembered.

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No advertising. Nothing it does leaves the phone: the editor talks to itself over a socket that only this app can reach, with a key that is made fresh each time it starts. It asks for your files and nothing else.

Free.

What it is for

You are away from the desk and something needs a small change -- a config file, a script, a page of notes. The phone will happily show you the file. Editing it is another matter: most editors on a phone are a plain text box with no colours, no way to find anything, and no idea what a Python file is. Type a bracket and you are on your own.

This is the editor from the desktop, made to fit a phone. The same Scintilla that runs LinuxNoteText on Linux is compiled into this app as C++, and the colouring is Lexilla's -- the same lexers, the same rules, the same answer. A file looks the same here as it does at the desk, because it is the same engine reading it.

What it looks like

A Python file, coloured by Lexilla -- the same lexers the desktop runs. Line numbers sit beside the line they belong to, even where one has wrapped.
A Python file, coloured by Lexilla -- the same lexers the desktop runs. Line numbers sit beside the line they belong to, even where one has wrapped.
The same file in dark. Every colour comes from the desktop's own theme file, so the two match rather than merely resemble each other.
The same file in dark. Every colour comes from the desktop's own theme file, so the two match rather than merely resemble each other.
The file picker: where you were lately, places to jump to, a filter and a sort. Files already open are listed at the top, with a lock beside any opened to read.
The file picker: where you were lately, places to jump to, a filter and a sort. Files already open are listed at the top, with a lock beside any opened to read.
In dark mode. A language's colour is lifted until it can be read against the dark, so navy and maroon do not disappear.
In dark mode. A language's colour is lifted until it can be read against the dark, so navy and maroon do not disappear.
Find and replace, with match case, whole word and regular expressions. What it finds is marked along the whole line, not left as a thin tint under your thumb.
Find and replace, with match case, whole word and regular expressions. What it finds is marked along the whole line, not left as a thin tint under your thumb.
In dark mode. Replace one, or replace them all.
In dark mode. Replace one, or replace them all.
Read only is a switch on whatever file is open, either way. Soft wrap, line numbers, the extra keys, bracket closing and indent, all as you like them.
Read only is a switch on whatever file is open, either way. Soft wrap, line numbers, the extra keys, bracket closing and indent, all as you like them.
In dark mode. Undo has no ceiling: Scintilla keeps the whole history for as long as the file is open.
In dark mode. Undo has no ceiling: Scintilla keeps the whole history for as long as the file is open.
Fifty-three languages, with a filter. It works out the language from the file, and you can tell it otherwise by tapping the name in the toolbar.
Fifty-three languages, with a filter. It works out the language from the file, and you can tell it otherwise by tapping the name in the toolbar.
In dark mode. Apache against nginx, Kotlin, Rust, Makefiles -- and it will read a file to tell two apart when the name does not say.
In dark mode. Apache against nginx, Kotlin, Rust, Makefiles -- and it will read a file to tell two apart when the name does not say.

What you are downloading

Packagecom.mLinuxNoteText.mLinuxNoteText
Version1.0 (1)
Published15 September 2026
Size45.2 MB
Built forarm64-v8a, x86_64
NeedsAndroid 7.0 and up
Price$0.00  · Free

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