Top 10 C++ text-editor Projects

kakoune

41 8,158 9.4 C++

mawww's experiment for a better code editor

Project mention: Which editor do you use for your Go coding? | reddit.com/r/golang | 2022-06-22

Kakoune with LSP (gopls).
ImGuiColorTextEdit

4 971 0.0 C++

Colorizing text editor for ImGui

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.
Scout APM

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EncryptPad

4 348 5.1 C++

Minimalist secure text editor and binary encryptor that implements RFC 4880 Open PGP format: symmetrically encrypted, compressed and integrity protected. The editor can protect files with passwords, key files or both.

Project mention: I have a REALLY stupid question.... | reddit.com/r/Bitwarden | 2022-05-18

As someone else mentioned, Cryptomator is a great option for this, and probably easier. Encrypt Pad can work also. These solutions work differently. Cryptomator gives you an encrypted drive where you can store many files, whereas Encrypt Pad will just encrypt a bunch of text. You can then safely save the encrypted file anywhere, such as your email.
YAWYSIWYGEE

0 71 0.0 C++

Yet another what-you-see-is-what-you-get equation editor
codepad

0 36 5.0 C++

Text editor written in C++, aims to be fast, sexy, cross-platform, and customizable (by lukedan)
Stroika

1 24 9.9 C++

Stroika is a rich, modern, portable, thread-savvy C++ application framework.

Project mention: Stroika C++ application framework version 2.1 released | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-05-21
multitextor

1 24 7.5 C++

Multiplatform command line text editor.

Project mention: Multitextor – Cross platform console mode text editor | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-02-21
SonarLint

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gadget

0 9 0.4 C++

A no-hassle GVim-inspired GUI text editor built with wxWidgets.
Paperclip

0 3 0.0 C++

A brand-new text-editor for Psion 5 Series and other EPOC32 devices (by Kroc)
eddytion

0 1 0.0 C++

A fairly simple command line text editor written in C++

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). The latest post mention was on 2022-06-22.

C++ text-editor related posts

Regex for matching all words after a certain word?
2 projects | reddit.com/r/regex | 2 Jul 2022
Smooth neovim experience with high ping server?
4 projects | reddit.com/r/neovim | 27 Jun 2022
Configurations for the Mildly Security Paranoid Gamer/Programmer
2 projects | reddit.com/r/Gentoo | 18 Jun 2022
Suggestions about CLI Text Editors?
3 projects | reddit.com/r/termux | 13 Jun 2022
I have a REALLY stupid question....
1 project | reddit.com/r/Bitwarden | 18 May 2022
Underlying Data structure?
1 project | reddit.com/r/kakoune | 12 May 2022
Regex Vis – regular expression visualizer
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2022

Index

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

	Project	Stars
1	kakoune	8,158
2	ImGuiColorTextEdit	971
3	EncryptPad	348
4	YAWYSIWYGEE	71
5	codepad	36
6	Stroika	24
7	multitextor	24
8	gadget	9
9	Paperclip	3
10	eddytion	1

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