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I'm looking for a GUI editor for a collection of Javascript files, in a folder structure.

Required features:

  • Libre
  • Gratis
  • Shows a tree-like view of elements in a script file - top-level entities, members within objects etc.
  • Relatively low memory footprint
  • Loads and responds reasonably fast even on somewhat old computers
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Actively maintained
  • Runs on modern Linux distributions

Desired features:

  • Can fuzzily lookup definitions of functions in other files, even if their relations is not formally or properly defined (otherwise I'd need it to be a full-fledged IDE with a bunch of complex logic).
  • Supports light and dark color schemes
  • Can also edit CSS and XML/XHTML/XUL files (with syntax highlighting and fuzzily finding definitions in other files)
  • Runs on Windows
  • Ongoing development
  • Uses native GUI toolkits and doesn't "invent the wheel" UI-wise

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CudaText editor (free). It has almost all the needed items. Except

  • it has its own UI look
  • it cannot find symbols in other JS files. But it can do it for the current file.

It has also the helper for JS coding - plugin Tern, for some intellisense.

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  • 1. Link please? 2. Why is it called Cuda text? Does this have anything to do with NVIDIA CUDA, the GPU programming environment?
    – einpoklum
    Sep 7, 2020 at 21:25
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I use VS Code and it ticks most of the boxes except for Relatively low memory footprint. If you avoid installing too many plugins, the memory shouldn't be a big deal.

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