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CudaText_logo.png

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText
https://cudatext.github.io/

A capable and fast programmer's editor.

It's capable and fast, but not being able to disable the recent files list is a killer for me.

  • Portable only, but it has an installer so you can easily right-click and open files in it.



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Software > Text editors >

https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3
https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/

A straightforward and capable Windows text editor which also has a portable version.

This seems like a nice daily driver for little things. I shouldn't replace Geany with it though since I want something cross-platform.

It's really stupid that it doesn't have configurable shortcuts unless I want to compile it from source.

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Software > Text editors >

(on Wikipedia)
Homebrew: geany
Chocolatey: geany
https://www.geany.org/

Geany is a GTK2 (GUI) text editor which is light and featureful. Here is a sampling of features from their about page:

  • Syntax highlighting
  • Code folding
  • Symbol name auto-completion
  • Construct completion/snippets
  • Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
  • Call tips

This is a editor that does such magical things as use control up/down to skip paragraphs. I love it for in-page bookmarking, code folding, search-replace, escaped-replaces and regular expressions for selections, documents and groups of documents.

  • The package geany-plugins is important..
  • I also (sometimes) use Leafpad.



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Software > Text editors >

https://github.com/gottcode/focuswriter
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

A beautified text editor with the widgets around the edges removed ("distraction-free").

I started using it because I couldn't trivially get Geany spell checking working. Once I did get it working I stopped.

Although I've used this on Linux a bit, it merely idles in my Windows kit.



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Software > Text editors >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/beaver-editor/
https://beaver-editor.sourceforge.net/ 1

A text editor.

I like it in general. It's on par with mousepad and Leafpad, although of the three, leafpad reserves the least amount of memory.

  • Abandoned.

    • As of 2020-02-09, last released 2010-08-29 version 0.4.1 and the source hasn't been updated since.

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  1. was http://www.nongnu.org/beaver/ []