STsteve1977·Mar 2, 2024
Source code says yes:
https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/blob/default/src/t...
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Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.
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4 sourcesSame.
Thousands text editors, but not a single IDE.
And they all get SO close, just give a look to SetEdit screenshots:
https://setedit.sourceforge.net/
I don't know if it can be of any help for you, but at the moment on the terminal I mostly use:
- Tilde: https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
- Textadept: https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept
Or "Geany IDE" on desktop environment (while waiting for lapce.dev to get better), I tend to stay away as much as possible from VS Codium, but everyone else seems to love it and already forgot about Atom, few seems to realise how Microsoft really is.
Maybe the plot twist is that you have to accept in your heart that "writing text on anything, is the real IDE", and transcend to writing on nano!
In Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminalYou could look at
https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/wiki
In Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive licenseIf you want GUI and a working and extensive syntax highlighting, your options boil down to Scintilla-based editors, which means Notepad++, Geany[0], TextAdept[1] or Notepad3[2].
There's also lite-xl[3] and CudaText[4], which are not based on Scintilla. Lapce[5] also looks promising, although it's slightly stretching the "light" condition.
For years, AkelPad[6] was considered to be the best substitute for the bundled Notepad, but it hasn't been updated in a while, although it still works absolutely fine in that role.
For the console, Helix[7], Micro[8], Moe[9] are all possible options which will work in cmd.exe out-of-the box.
Regarding vim/nvim - I had some issues with plugin-heavy configs running on top of Cygwin, but YMMV.
0. https://www.geany.org/download/releases
1. https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/releases
2. https://github.
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com/rizonesoft/Notepad3
3. https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/releases
4. https://cudatext.github.io/download.html
5. https://github.com/lapce/lapce/releases
6. https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/download.php
7. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases
8. https://github.com/zyedidia/micro
9. https://github.com/fox0430/moe/releases