Textosaurus
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Simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUAlerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
Last GitHub commit on Sep 2020 and last release on Dec 2019.
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Developed by
Martin Rotter Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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- 296 Stars
- 43 Forks
- 17 Open Issues
- Updated
What is Textosaurus?
Features UI:
- cross-platform look & feel,
- configurable toolbar
- changeable icon themes and styles,
- main window remembers its location and size,
- hideable toolbar and statusbar,
- simple interface,
- movable dock sidebars:
- "Output" sidebar - can display output of external tools and other information,
- "Filesystem" sidebar - allows to browse folder hierarchy and mark some files as favorites,
- "Markdown Preview" sidebar - allows you to display simple preview of your Markdown scripts, tabbed interface.
- Text editor component:
- supports a lot of input encodings,
- input file encoding detection (via bundled uchardet),
- switchable encoding for each separate document,
- uses full UTF-8 internally,
- auto-indent with mixed TAB/SPACES support,
- can load relatively big files (100 MB file should not be a problem),
- can print files including syntax highlighting,
- can print to PDF,
- hideable line numbers,
- configurable color schemes,
- URL highlights (fast on big files, only currently visible lines),
- highlights occurrences of current selection (fast on big files, only currently visible lines),
- switchable indent characters (spaces/tabs),
- adjustable tab/indent width,
- adjustable vertical line height (responds to SHIFT+WHEEL UP/DOWN shortcut too),
- adjustable editor font (size can be changed also via CTRL+WHEEL UP/DOWN shortcut),
- can display ligatures (tested with Fira Code on GNU/Linux and Windows),
- simple find/replace functionality, which allows you to:
- search forward/backward for plain string or regular expression (ECMAScript),
- display number of occurrences of search phrase in a document,
- replace all occurrences,
- display results via "Find Results" sidebar,
- switchable EOL mode for new documents,
- EOL mode auto-detection,
- syntax highlighting for many text formats,
- inituitive filtering for menu of available syntax highlighters,
- conversion of existing EOLs,
- switchable visibility of EOL/whitespace characters,
Comments and Reviews
It is slim, multiplatform, and version 0.9.8 runs stably on my Xubuntu 18.04. It has features similar to those of the well-known editor Notepad++ (which is only available for Windows), like syntax highlighting for many programming languages, code folding and such. What I like is that there is a Markdown preview. There seem to be some bugs and flaws, but there are many things on the developer’s to-do list, so the further development gives hope.