TEA (text editor)

TEA is a graphical text editor for power users. It is designed for low resource consumption, a wide range of functions and adaptability, and is available for all desktop operating systems supported by Qt 6, 5 or 4.6+, thus also OS/2 and Haiku OS. Its user interface is localized in several languages.
UI concept.
The functional scope of TEA exceeds that of a pure text editor since it is designed as a desktop environment for text editing. It has five tabs on the right border of the window:
"edit" represents the actual text editor. On the top of the text editor there is a tab bar for switching between multiple opened text files. The "edit" tab contains the text editing window. Below that window there is another window which displays the editing history and below the history there is the FIF, the "Famous Input Field" follows. The FIF is a special command line for entering TEA-specific commands. The editing history and the FIF are also visible in the four other tabs.
The tab "files" contains a file manager for navigating in the computers file system opening files.
"options" is a settings tab, for changing the behavior of TEA and modifying the content of the menu bar.
"dates" contains a calendar.
The tab "manual" contains a detailed user manual including instructions for the FIF.
Features.
FIF.
The "Famous Input Field" is a TEA specific command line. In order to find and replace text, enter e.g. codice_1 and click on "Replace", "Replace All" or "Replace all in opened files" in the "Search" menu. The string codice_2 will be replaced by the string codice_3 in the chosen way.
In addition, the FIF includes three separate search buttons, located on the right side.
History.
Originally TEA was a program for Windows. In version 1.0.0.49, released on 30 December 2001, it is evident that the acronym TEA then still meant Text Editing and Authoring. Later on a version for Linux using GTK + was written, which made it possible to compile the program for both Windows and Linux. TEA is one of those programs that were later on rewritten using Qt (cf. e.g. the media player VLC).
The program and the website were initially available only in Russian, which has had a negative impact on the popularity and reach outside of Ukraine and Russia. Meanwhile, the website is bilingual (Russian and English) and the program itself has been localized in several languages.
Website history: