Pragtical is a cross-platform code editor with a modern graphical interface, developed using C and Lua(JIT), powered by SDL for rendering and input management. It serves as a lightweight alternative to web-based editors like VSCode and can be easily extended or themed with Lua plugins.
It supports syntax highlighting for various programming languages.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Auto-completion.
- Graphical and advanced configuration using Lua.
- Support for multiple file encodings.
- Multi-threaded project-wide find and replace.
- A command palette for a keyboard-focused workflow.
- Graphical and keyboard-driven file navigation.
- Customizable key bindings.
- Changeable color schemes with easy creation of custom schemes.
- A flexible plugin architecture for extending functionality.
- Widgets.
- Settings UI
- Encoding – while UTF-8 has overtaken as the preferred encoding for text documents for its convenience, we can sometimes encounter a document in another encoding. Loading and saving documents with different encodings will be supported for when the need arrives, a feature that is also commonly found in other editors because it is pragtical.
- IPC – shared memory functionality is part of the core and IPC plugin shipped by default to allow opening files and tab dragging between currently opened instances.
- CLI – Integrated command line interface API that can be extended by plugins to provide new CLI flags.
- Search/Replace – Project-wide search and replace support, better user interface for both documents and project search/replace.
- Built-in Diff Viewer – A file or strings diff viewer that lets easily navigate and synchronize the differences. The functionality is expanded by the Source Control Management where it will let you compare your current checkout file to an older version on the commit history.
- Cross-platform support – runs under
Website: github.com/pragtical/pragtical
Support:
Developer: Pragtical Team
License: MIT License
Pragtical is written in Lua and C. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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