CorePad is the text editor supplied with C Suite, a collection of lightweight desktop applications. It concentrates on providing a responsive editing environment without surrounding the document with the machinery found in larger development tools.
The editor is particularly oriented towards source and structured-text files. Its syntax-highlighting engine is based on Qt’s QSyntaxHighlighter and includes definitions for a useful collection of common programming, scripting and markup languages.
CorePad’s deliberately straightforward approach makes it suitable for quick edits to code, configuration files and ordinary text. It can also work with sizeable source files while retaining a relatively small interface.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Syntax highlighting built on QSyntaxHighlighter.
- Built-in highlighting for C and C++.
- Support for C#, Go and Java source.
- Highlights JavaScript, PHP and Python.
- Shell script highlighting.
- HTML, CSS and XML support.
- Markdown highlighting.
- Desktop-entry file highlighting.
- Syntax definitions can be extended to cover additional languages.
- Designed to remain lightweight when opening larger source files.
- Simple interface consistent with the other C Suite applications.
- Suitable for both plain-text editing and lightweight source-code work.
Website: gitlab.com/cubocore/coreapps/corepad
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Developer: C Suite
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
CorePad is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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