CudaText – Cross-platform code editor written in Object Pascal

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CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal. It is open source project and can be used free of charge, even for business. It starts quite fast: ~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3GHz. It is extensible by Python add-ons: plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools. Syntax parser is feature-rich, from EControl engine.

Features

  • Syntax highlight for lot of languages (300+ lexers).
  • Code tree: structure of functions/classes/etc, if lexer allows it.
  • Code folding.
  • Multi-carets and multi-selections.
  • Find/Replace with regular expressions.
  • Configs in JSON format. Including lexer-specific configs.
  • Tabbed UI.
  • Split view to primary/secondary. Split window to 2/3/4/6 groups of tabs.
  • Command palette, with fuzzy matching.
  • Minimap. Micromap.
  • Show unprinted whitespace.
  • Support for many encodings.
  • Customizable hotkeys.
  • Binary/Hex viewer for files of unlimited size (can show 10 Gb logs).
  • Correctly saves binary files.

Features for HTML/CSS coding

  • Smart auto-completion for HTML, CSS.
  • HTML tags completion with Tab-key (Snippets plugin).
  • HTML color codes (#rgb, #rrggbb) underline.
  • Show pictures inside editor area (jpeg/png/gif/bmp/ico).
  • Show tooltip when mouse moves over picture tag, entity, color value.

Features implemented as plugins

  • Addons manager
  • Find in files
  • Snippets
  • LSP protocol support
  • External tools
  • Project manager
  • Session manager
  • Macro manager
  • Spell checker
  • FTP panel
  • Highlight all occurrences
  • Color picker
  • Insert date/time
  • Linters support (CudaLint)
  • Formatters for HTML/CSS/JS/XML/... (CudaFormatter)
  • Creating backup files
  • Menu configurator
  • and more...

Details

  • Frequently asked question is "What advantages over Sublime does it have?" Wiki answers it. Wiki contains almost complete documentation for program.
  • SourceForge "Project of the month" and interview with the author.
  • Textual user review 1. Illustrated user review 2. Short and funny user review 3.
  • Performance: startup time; performance of loading huge files; performance of editing huge lines; performance of mass replace in huge lines; performance of built-in sorting.
  • Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".

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