{"id":5217,"date":"2015-08-22T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2015-08-22T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:12:11","slug":"utext-markdown-editor-ubuntu-15-04-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/utext-markdown-editor-ubuntu-15-04-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install uText Markdown Editor in Ubuntu 15.04, 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/utext-markdown-editor-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/utext-markdown-editor-icon.png\" alt=\"utext-markdown-editor-icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>uText is a very simple markdown editor with <u>live text preview<\/u> and <u>syntax highlighting<\/u> support. Supported export formats: HTML, ODT, PDF<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/utext\" target=\"_blank\">uText<\/a> is a minimalist text editor with syntax markdown focused on writing, providing all the tools and facilities that the user may need. It&#8217;s written in Python and developed by atareao team who&#8217;s behind touchpad-indicator and my-weather-indicator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/utext.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/utext-600x330.jpg\" alt=\"uText markdown editor\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/utext-600x330.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/utext-450x248.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/utext.jpg 1249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The editor features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Live text preview<\/li>\n<li>Day, Night, and fullscreen mode to focus on writing.<\/li>\n<li>Search and replace, spell check<\/li>\n<li>save in dropbox.<\/li>\n<li>other common options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>To install this editor:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Open terminal from the Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys. When it opens, run below commands to get it from the developer&#8217;s PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao\/utext\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install utext<\/pre>\n<p>Or you can directly download and install the &#8220;utext_x.x.x_all.deb&#8221; package from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/atareao\/utext\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/u\/utext\/\" target=\"_blank\">PPA ARCHIVE<\/a>. The .deb works on all current Ubuntu releases though it&#8217;s built against\tUbuntu 15.04.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uText is a very simple markdown editor with live text preview and syntax highlighting support. Supported export formats: HTML, ODT, PDF uText is a minimalist text editor with syntax markdown focused on writing, providing all the tools and facilities that the user may need. It&#8217;s written in Python and developed by atareao team who&#8217;s behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1302,1303],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-markdown-editor","tag-utext"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}