ValaPad

Edit plain-text files with a familiar set of tools.

Written in Vala and uses GTK4. Tested on elementary OS.

Features

• You can edit files.

Installation

From AppCenter (Recommended)

Click the button to get ValaPad on AppCenter if you're on elementary OS:

From Source Code (Flatpak)

You'll need flatpak and flatpak-builder commands installed on your system.

Run flatpak remote-add to add AppCenter remote for dependencies:

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists appcenter https://flatpak.elementary.io/repo.flatpakrepo

To build and install, use flatpak-builder, then execute with flatpak run:

flatpak-builder builddir --user --install --force-clean --install-deps-from=appcenter dev.mysh.valapad.yml
flatpak run dev.mysh.valapad

Building from source (without Flatpak)

Requires vala, meson, ninja, gettext, gtk4 (4.12), granite-7, pango, and pangocairo.

meson setup build
ninja -C build
./build/src/dev.mysh.valapad

To install system-wide:

sudo ninja -C build install

Enabling debug logs

Run the app with the following environment variable:

G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all dev.mysh.valapad

Languages

ValaPad uses English as its source and fallback language. And also translated to Russian and German.

To update them do:

ninja -C build dev.mysh.valapad-pot dev.mysh.valapad-update-po
ninja -C build dev.mysh.valapad-extra-pot dev.mysh.valapad-extra-update-po

License

GPL-3.0-or-later. See LICENSE.