Sunday, 12 April 2020

CudaText

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. Open source project. It starts quite fast (~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3Hz). It is extensible by Python add-ons (plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools). Syntax parser is feature-rich, based on EControl engine (though not as fast as in some competitors).

FeaturesA

  • Syntax highlight for lot of languages (230+ 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
  • External tools
  • Project manager
  • Session manager
  • Macro manager
  • Spell checker
  • FTP panel
  • Linters support (CudaLint)
  • Brackets highlight, go to pair bracket
  • Highlight all occurences
  • Color picker
  • Insert date/time
  • Formatters for HTML/ CSS/ JS/ XML/ SQL
  • Tabs list in sidebar
  • Create backup files
  • Menu configurator
  • and more...

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