medit is an open source programming and around-programming text editor.
It’s a GTK text editor.
This application started as an editor component of GGAP, but has developed into a real full-featured text editor.
Features include:
- Regular expression search/replace.
- grep and find frontends.
- Built-in file selector.
- Split views.
- Configurable syntax highlighting:
- Markup: BibTeX, Docbook, DTD, HTML, LaTeX, Mallard, Texinfo, Text2Tags, XML, XSLT.
- Sources: Ada, ASP, BennuGD, Boo, C, C#, C++, C/C++/ObjC Header, CG Shader Language, Cobol, CUDA, D, Eiffel, Erlang, F#, Forth, Fortran 95, Go, Haskell, IDL, Java, Literate Haskell, Makefile, Nemerle, Objective-C, Objective Caml, OOC, Opal, OpenGL Shading Language, Pascal, Prolog, Scheme, SPARQL, SQL, SystemVerilog, Vala, VB.NET, Verilog, VHDL.
- Scientific: FCL, GAP, Octave, R, Scilab.
- Scripts: awk, Dos Batch, JavaScript, Lua, m4, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, sh, Tcl
- Other: ChangeLog, CMake, CSS, .desktop, Diff, DPatch, GDB Log, gettext translation, Graphviz Dot, GtkRC, .ini, libtool, MSIL, NSIS, OCL, pkg-config, RPM spec, Yacc.
- Bookmarks.
- Configurable keyboard accelerators.
- Plugins: can be written in C or Python.
- Configurable tools available from the main and context menus. These tools can be written in Python, can be a shell script, or in Mooscript – a simple built-in scripting language.
- Text wrapping.
- Auto indentation.
- Configurable tab key indents.
- Configurable fonts and color scheme.
- Session support.
- Encoding support.
- File filters.
- Internationalization support.
Website: mooedit.sourceforge.net
Support:
Developer: Yevgen Muntyan
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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