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QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
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caskaydia-cove
Caskaydia Cove is a fork of the Cascadia Code typeface with the RFN (Reserved Font Name) removed, plus small adjustments to conform to the Google Fonts spec.
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SublimeDebugger
Graphical Debugger for Sublime Text for debuggers that support the debug adapter protocol
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color-identifiers-mode
Emacs minor mode to highlight each source code identifier uniquely based on its name
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Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
Too heavy.
MicroEmacs is small and lightweight. I port it to whatever machine I'm using, and it works nicely in a remote tty window. It doesn't need a customization language, as I just change the source code.
Recently, I added color syntax highlighting to it, and support for unicode characters.
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
- Med: Micro Emacs in D
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A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor written in C, and Lua
Here's another one with a very small footprint:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
It's the one I use every day. The executable on Windows is a little over a meg. It also works on Linux and Mac.
- A case against syntax highlighting
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I Still Use Plain Text for Everything.
I fixed my editor so that it recognizes URLs, and underlines them. Clicking on one brings up a browser on that site. I should have done that 20 years ago.
No special syntax is required. It just works. I've since been adding URLs in comments all over my code, for references. It's marvelous.
It could be extended to recognize filename.jpg and filename.mp3 to display or play those files, too. Again with no special syntax whatsoever. It just works.
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
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The Lost Apps of the 80s
I still use microEmacs, which floated around the intertoobs in the 1980s. Of course, I've modified it substantially over the years, most recently adding color syntax highlighting and Unicode.
D version:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
C version:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/me
The "extension language" is it's so easy to just add some code and recompile it, there's no point in adding an extension language.
I like microEmacs a lot because I can use it remotely over a tty interface.
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Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
Doing one yourself is fun. MicroEmacs drifted around NNTP in the 80s, and I snagged a copy and began modifying it to taste. I've been using it ever since. The latest version was ported to D:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
It's a very easy editor to understand and extend.
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DigitalMars/med is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of med is D.
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