Flatsonar

CudaText

by Alexey Torgashin

Open source and cross-platform text editor

Broad permissions Flathub reviewed MPL-2.0 v1.235.1.0
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About

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal. It is open source project and can be used free of charge, even for business. It starts quite fast: ~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3GHz. It is extensible by Python add-ons: plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools. Syntax parser is feature-rich, based on EControl engine (though not as fast as in some competitors).

Features

  • Syntax highlight for lot of languages.
  • Code tree: structure of functions/classes/etc, if lexer allows it.
  • Code folding.
  • Multi-carets and multi-selections.
  • Find/Replace with regular expressions.
  • Configs in JSON format. Including lexer-specific configs.
  • Tabbed UI.
  • Split view to primary/secondary. Split window to 2/3/4/6 groups of tabs.
  • Command palette, with fuzzy matching.
  • Minimap. Micromap.
  • Show unprinted whitespace.
  • Support for many encodings.
  • Customizable hotkeys.
  • Binary/Hex viewer for files of unlimited size (can show 10 Gb logs).
  • Correctly saves binary files.

Features for HTML/CSS coding

  • Smart auto-completion for HTML, CSS.
  • HTML tags completion with Tab-key (Snippets plugin).
  • HTML color codes (#rgb, #rrggbb) underline.
  • Show pictures inside editor area (jpeg/png/gif/bmp/ico).
  • Show tooltip when mouse moves over picture tag, entity, color value.

Features implemented as plugins

  • Addons manager
  • Find in files
  • Snippets
  • External tools
  • Project manager
  • Session manager
  • Macro manager
  • Spell checker
  • FTP panel
  • Linters support (CudaLint)
  • Brackets highlight, go to pair bracket
  • Highlight all occurences
  • Color picker
  • Insert date/time
  • Formatters for HTML/ CSS/ JS/ XML/ SQL
  • Tabs list in sidebar
  • Create backup files
  • Menu configurator
  • and more...

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • full access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x2)
    source:prebuilt
  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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