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Top 6 C++ Scintilla Projects

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  1. notepad4

    Notepad4 (Notepad2⨯2, Notepad2++) is a light-weight Scintilla based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

    Project mention: New Windows 11 build adds self-healing "quick machine recovery" feature | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-13

    Use the newest fork, https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4. That's what I switched to when Microsoft started bloating up Notepad.

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  3. Gittyup

    Understand your Git history!

  4. turbo

    An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision. (by magiblot)

    Project mention: Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-11

    Yes, Scintilla is a text editor engine library. It's definitely what you want to start with, IMO.

    Here's Scintilla driving a TUI text editor: https://github.com/magiblot/turbo

    Here's Scintilla driving a custom GUI control (_not_ the system text control): https://github.com/desjarlais/Scintilla.NET

    The engine has a series of hooks that you implement in whichever way you please for your particular interface.

  5. Notepad2e

    Word highlighting, simultaneous editing, split views, math evaluation, un/grep, comment reformatting, UAC elevation, complete regexps (PCRE), Lua lexers, DPI awareness and more (XP+)

  6. textosaurus

    Cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

  7. Koder

    A code editor for Haiku based on Scintilla editing component. (by KapiX)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source Scintilla projects in C++? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 notepad4 4,698
2 Gittyup 2,187
3 turbo 659
4 Notepad2e 428
5 textosaurus 297
6 Koder 45

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