TEA is the GTK2-based text editor for Linux and *BSD. With an ultimate small size TEA provides you hundreds of functions.

TEA is depended on GTK+2.4 (or higher) and, optionally, on Aspell. TEA can be built in two modes. The default one uses the GtkSourceView and some GNOME-related libs: GnomeVFS and LibGconf (modern versions). You can also build TEA without those libs, but using the pure GTK+2.4 (or higher). In this mode, TEA hasn't dynamic syntax highlighting (so you need to refresh it manually), and has not braces highlighting. To use such mode, run the "configure" script with the "--enable-legacy" option.

TEA features are:

Extremely small size

Built-in file manager Kwas

Spellchecker (using the aspell or enchant)

Built-in search within files (using multiply charsets).

Scripts (Python, Perl, Ruby, Shell) support

Tabbed layout engine

Multiply encodings support

Code snippets, sessions and templates support

The ability to open OpenDocument, RTF, KWord, Abiword, OpenOffice.org Writer documents

SRT-subtitles preview with Mplayer in a current subtitles position

Text analyzer called UNITAZ

Hotkeys customizations

"Open at cursor"-function for HTML-files and images

Misc HTML tools

Brackets matching

Wikipedia, Docbook, LaTeX editing support

Preview in external browsers

String-handling functions such as sorting, reverse, format killing, trimming, filtering, conversions etc.

Bookmarks

Morse code translator

Syntax highlighting

Drag'n'drop support (with text files and pictures)

Built-in image viewer (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WBMP, BMP, SVG)

UI localizations: English, Japanese, Serbian, Ukrainian, French, Polish, German, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Spanish

Automatic text encoding detection for Russian, Ukrainian, Finnish, German, Serbian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian, France.