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Markdown editor for Windows with live rendering in the editing pane, NOT in a separate preview pane
Last update: 2023-05-06
Having a similar need to the OP, I searched the whole web for current solutions. There's no current perfect solution, but there are a few ones that might be worth a try.
Note ...
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Visual Studio Code
Pros:
Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac)
Open-source, see its GitHub page, though there is some fog about it
Free of charge, MIT license
Faster than Atom
IntelliSense ...
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
gVim
Pros:
Cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, Amiga, OS/2, others, even Android and iOS)
Open-source, see its GitHub page
Free of charge (although it encourages charity donation), GPL license with ...
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Atom
Pros:
Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac)
Open-source, see its GitHub page
Free of charge, MIT license
Shell script syntax highlighting with strong color for variables:
Cons:
Start-up time ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Geany is based on Scintilla like Notepad++.
By holding down the Control and Shift keys.
Column mode editing (rectangular selections)
There is basic support for column mode editing. To use it, create ...
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Windows text editor for editing files hosted on remote linux server
Looks like the perfect match for you is Notepad++, which ships with an FTP file browser:
Notepad++ with opened FTP browser / FTP config (source: StackOverflow; click images for larger variants)
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Linux alternative for Notepad++
I used to recommend Kate as the editor to use ... until it stopped working correctly in non-KDE environments (missing icons, etc)
Now I cheerfully recommend Geany - https://www.geany.org/Download/...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Emacs, of course. The concept is called rectangles and works cursor-based, similar to normal marks (you never required mouse involvement!).
So the idea is that you mark a region as usual (C-SPC and ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Vim does rectangular selection out of the box. GUI vim is available in repositories of many distros (e.g. gvim in Ubuntu and Arch).
In vim language, this operation is called 'visual block selection' ...
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Linux alternative for Notepad++
You may try Sublime Text. It has all the features listed by you.
The UI is modern and quite fast, and supports mouse + configurable keyboard shortcuts:
As well it includes other features:
"Goto ...
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Kate
Pros:
Cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS, Windows)
Open source
Free software (GPL)
Fast
Has syntax highlighting support for a lot of different files (Markup, Scripts, Source code, configuration, ...)
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Text editor or reader for working with huge files in Windows
You can use gVIM for Win32:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/portablegvim/
It uses virtual rendering and can easily handle 50+ GB files.
Works on our logfile dump (if you experience any trouble, ...
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Linux alternative for Notepad++
Vim
While the UI is pretty old school, there is a reason it is still popular a quarter century after it's creation; it's awesome. Here is an article that walks through how to install most of the ...
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Simple open-source text editor for Windows
What you want is likely Notepad++ which has all those things which you mention as far as I can tell. It works great on Windows and has slews of free plugins as well.
Source code: https://github.com/...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
CudaText is a free and open source GUI text editor, in the same vein of SublimeText that runs on Linux, macOS, *BSD, Solaris, and Windows.
It has column selections you can access by pressing Alt key ...
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An open-source cross between an IDE and a text-editor?
Atom is a very good text editor that covers your requirements.
Free and Open-Source
Code highlighting for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, and PHP. (Bonus for Python and Ruby)
Code completion ...
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Software to replace multiple text strings in multiple files
You can do this with Notepad++ without opening your files:
Open Notepad++
Press Ctrl + H
Switch to the tab titled "Find in Files"
Specify your search text, and the replacement
Set the folder in ...
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Linux text editor for large text files
CudaText editor can open/edit big files, up to avail memory size (better use x64 version).
Default max size is 1Gb. To allow max file size of 2Gb, call "Options / Settings-user" and write such option ...
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Emacs
Pros:
Cross platform
Free and Open Source Software
Free of charge
Supports both GUI and CLI usage, even for a single instance simultaneously. You can have your emacs windows in your desktop; ...
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Ultra-lightweight editor (like Python's IDLE) for C
Sublime Text should be able to do all three of your tasks:
Basic context coloring
This generally happens automatically.
Ability to collapse {} blocks
You can do this by using the "gutter" (the ...
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Text editor that doesn't change line endings on paste
In Notepad++ you can do Paste Binary Content (found under Edit -> Paste Special). This pastes EOL characters unchanged for me.
You can shortcut it using the Shortcut mapper.
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Linux alternative for Notepad++
Take a look at GitHub Atom
Free, Gratis & Open Source
Supports Syntax Highlighting most languages out of the box and can be customised for more
Hex Viewer as a plug in module
Small & ...
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Sublime Text 3 alternative to use on ARM Linux?
Try out Visual Studio Code which is an open source IDE that supports all the languages you specified with the help of extensions. I have used it on Mac, Linux and Windows and it is a great IDE with ...
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Geany
Cross platform. GPL licensed. Syntax high lighting. Actually a very light weight IDE - has buttons for "compile" "build" and such that can have specific actions set for appropriate file ...
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Open-source CSV viewer & editor
I like OpenRefine.
According to the documentation :
OpenRefine is a Java-based power tool that allows you to load data, understand it, clean it up, reconcile it, and augment it with data coming from ...
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Editor for writing shell scripts, with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
I usually use OSes in the *nix family so this may not help:
I'm a big fan of Sublime Text and since it offers a free, unlimited trial (Windows, Mac, Linux), you don't have much to lose.
While it is ...
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Text editor or reader for working with huge files in Windows
BareTail (free edition) is good enough for my log monitoring activities:
Real-time file viewing
Optimised real-time viewing engine
View files of any size (> 2GB)
Scroll to any point in the whole ...
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Software for syntax coloring English language
Hemingway Editor
This app helps you improve your writing by highlighting complex and meandering sentences. Apart from that, it also highlights adverbs, passive voice as well as phrases with simpler ...
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Editor for Django, Angular and Ionic?
I recommend you another software from Jetbrains: IntelliJ IDEA.
it's type of "mixture" from WebStorm, PyCharm and other IDEs, so it supports both JS (AngularJS) and Python
it has a large base of ...
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Best viewer for large text files (> 10GB)
I wrote a program which outputs very large files, about 6 GB and above. I view them with glogg.
glogg is fast, supports grep/egrep-like regular expressions and loads file directly from disk without ...
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