RustPad

RustPad is a small text editor built with Rust and Iced. It keeps the old-school Notepad feel, but adds a few modern conveniences so it stays useful for everyday editing.

Features

RustPad currently supports:

• Open, save, and save as for UTF-8 text files
• Find, replace, and go to line
• Font selection, font style selection, and font size changes
• Word wrap and dark mode toggles
• A right-click context menu for common edit actions
• Time/date insertion with F5
• Print support through the system print command (lp, lpr, or notepad.exe /p on Windows)
• A single-level undo snapshot, similar to classic Notepad behavior
• A .LOG workflow that appends a timestamp when opening files that start with .LOG

Install

If you use Arch, RustPad is on the AUR:

paru -S rustpad

or

yay -S rustpad

If you just want a ready made build, grab one from GitHub Releases:

https://github.com/goshitsarch-eng/RustPad/releases

Current release artifacts are:

• Linux AppImage for x86_64
• Linux AppImage for aarch64
• Windows NSIS installer for x86_64
• macOS .app bundle for aarch64
• macOS .dmg package for aarch64

The release workflow publishes these assets for tagged releases that start with v.

Build It Yourself

To run RustPad from source:

cargo run

To build an optimized release binary:

cargo build --release

The final binary ends up at:

target/release/rustpad

If you want to package it locally, the repo is configured for cargo packager outputs in dist/ using the appimage, nsis, app, and dmg formats.

Printing goes through your system print service, so that part only works if your machine already has a printer configured and the print service is running.