Top 5 C++ syntax-highlighting Projects
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Notepad3
Notepad like text editor based on the Scintilla source code. Notepad3 based on code from Notepad2 and MiniPath on code from metapath. Download Notepad3:
Notepad3 is actively maintained and has many improvements, BTW.
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notepad2
Notepad2-zufuliu is a light-weight Scintilla-based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for about 80 programming languages/documents, bundled with file browser plugin metapath.
There have been a series of forks, for example: https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2
They seem to add a lot of features, though ... I'd be interested to find a more minimal one, which mostly just updates language syntaxes and OS support, and the thankless minor bug squashing ...
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SonarQube
Static code analysis for 29 languages.. Your projects are multi-language. So is SonarQube analysis. Find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells so you can release quality code every time. Get started analyzing your projects today for free.
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Project mention: [Discussion] What are some old C++ open source projects you wish were still active? | reddit.com/r/cpp | 2022-04-05
ImGuiColorTextEdit is a quite complete text editor for ImGui.
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replxx
A readline and libedit replacement that supports UTF-8, syntax highlighting, hints and Windows and is BSD licensed.
Project mention: A C++ commandline for use in servers and chat software. Provides very simple asynchronous input/output. | reddit.com/r/cpp | 2022-03-092) Why not replxx? It is BSD licensed.
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Here are the issues that are currently bothering me: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50386 https://github.com/jeff-hykin/better-cpp-syntax/issues/580
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What are some of the best open-source syntax-highlighting projects in C++? This list will help you:
Project | Stars | |
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1 | Notepad3 | 2,714 |
2 | notepad2 | 1,231 |
3 | ImGuiColorTextEdit | 975 |
4 | replxx | 572 |
5 | better-cpp-syntax | 104 |
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