RText
RText is a customizable open source programmer's text
editor written in Java.
It is a simple, intuitive text editor with a mature
feature-set.
Features include:
- Syntax highlighting for over 30 languages:
- Assembler (X86), BBCode, C, C++, C#, CSS, Delphi,
Fortran, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Lua, Perl, PHP,
Properties Files, Python, Ruby, SAS, Scala, SQL, Tcl, UNIX shell
scripts, Windows batch, and XML
- Code folding
- Multiple fonts simultaneously - Different token types can
use different fonts and styles
- Bracket matching - Useful for quickly scoping a block of
code
- Macro record/playback - Automate common editing tasks you
do repeatedly
- Drag-and-drop - Easily move code around in your document,
or even into another application
- Spell Checking - Spell check plain text documents and
comments of source code
- Bookmarking - Mark and quickly navigate to important
sections of code
- Mark Occurrences - Easily see the scope and usage of a
variable or method
- Code templates - Create shortcut key sequences for common
coding constructs such as for-loops
- Unlimited undo/redo - Don't worry about making a mistake
with the handy smart undo & redo
- File encodings supported - Edit and save files in ASCII,
Unicode, or any other encoding supported by your JVM
- Current line highlighting - Allows you to quickly locate
your position in a source file
- Margin line - Useful for keeping your lines from being too
long, if you're into that kind of thing
- Drag-and-drop files from the desktop to open them
- Edit multiple documents simultaneously, using a (tabbed
view or traditional MDI)
- Find/Replace, with full regular expression support
- Find in Files and Replace in Files
- External Tool Support for running things such as compilers,
Ant, etc
- Task List highlights your TODO items in source code comments
- Printing and Print Preview, for when you need a hard copy
- Auto-reload of files when they are modified outside of
editor
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts makes using the editor a
little more comfortable
- Customizable UI - change the toolbar's icon set, the
application's look and feel, the colors and fonts used in the editor,
what buttons are visible on the toolbar, etc
- Comprehensive Help documentation comes with the application
- Cross-platform - runs anywhere there is a JVM
- External tool support
- Load and save files remotely via FTP
- Localized into 15 languages

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