CudaText: light code editor

If you are looking for a lightweight code editor with a lot of perks, try CudaText. Despite its small footprint, CudaText comes with a lot of features you’ll find only in advanced code editors. A plugin based architecture makes the editor extensible with many more possibilities. CudaText is written in Lazarus. The Linux GUI is written using GTK2.

Features

General

• Syntax highlighting for C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, XML and more. 160+ lexers from SynWrite are supported.
• Code folding
• Code tree structure (SynWrite style)
• Multi-carets
• Multi-selections
• Find/Replace with regex
• Plugins in Python language
• Configuration settings in JSON (lexer-specific configs supported)
• Tabbed UI
• Split each tab
• Split view for 2/3/4/6 files
• Simple auto-completion (fixed list) for some lexers
• Command palette (ST3 style), minimap (ST3 style), micromap
• Show unprinted whitespace
• Support for many encodings
• Customizable hotkeys
• Multiple color themes
• Multi-platform (Linux, Windows and OS X)

HTML/CSS spcific

• Smart auto-completion for HTML, CSS
• HTML tags completion with Tab-key (snippets plugin)
• HTML color codes (#rgb, #rrggbb) underline
• View pictures (jpeg/png/gif/bmp/ico)

Plugins

• Addons manager
• Snippets
• External tools
• Macro manager
• Session manager
• Spell checker
• Brackets highlight, go to pair bracket
• Highlight all occurences
• Color picker
• Insert date/time
• HTML/ CSS/ JS/ XML/ SQL formatter
• Tabs list in sidebar
• Menu configurator

While CudaText is perfect as an advanced code and text editor, it still lacks the features of a code browser like call graphs, which would add a lot of value.

Installation

CudaText deb package for Ubuntu can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page. To install, run:

$ sudo dpkg -i cudatext_version_gtk2_amd64.deb

Rating

Features: 3.5/5
Usability: 4/5

Webpage: CudaText