Textosaurus – simple cross-platform UTF-8 text editor based on Qt and Scintilla

Textosaurus is a simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

The editor aims to provide similar workflow as Notepad++.

The software is published under an open source license.

Features include:

• User Interface:
  • Cross-platform look and feel.
  • Configurable toolbar.
  • Changeable icon themes and styles.
  • Main window remembers its location and size.
  • Hideable toolbar and statusbar.
  • Main window can stay on top.
  • Tray icon.
  • Record/save/play macros.
  • Simple interface.
  • Movable dock sidebars:
    • “Output” sidebar – can display output of external tools and other information.
    • “Filesystem” sidebar – allows to browse folder hierarchy and mark some files as favorites.
    • “Markdown Preview” sidebar – allows users to display simple preview of your Markdown scripts.
  • Tabbed interface.
• Text editor component:
  • Supports a lot of input encodings.
  • Input file encoding detection.
  • Switchable encoding for each separate document.
  • Uses full UTF-8 internally.
  • Auto-indent with mixed TAB/SPACES support.
  • Load relatively big files (100 MB file should not be a problem).
  • Print files including syntax highlighting.
  • Print to PDF.
  • Code folding.
  • Hideable line numbers.
  • Configurable color schemes.
  • URL highlights (fast on big files, only currently visible lines).
  • Highlights occurrences of current selection (fast on big files, only currently visible lines).
  • Switchable indent characters (spaces/tabs).
  • Adjustable tab/indent width.
  • Adjustable vertical line height (responds to SHIFT+WHEEL UP/DOWN shortcut too).
  • Adjustable editor font (size can be changed also via CTRL+WHEEL UP/DOWN shortcut).
  • Display ligatures.
  • Simple find/replace functionality, which allows users to:
    • Search forward/backward for plain string or regular expression (ECMAScript).
    • Display number of occurrences of search phrase in a document.
    • Replace all occurrences.
    • Display results via “Find Results” sidebar.
  • Switchable EOL mode for new documents.
  • EOL mode auto-detection.
  • syntax highlighting for many text formats.
  • Intuitive filtering for menu of available syntax highlighters.
  • Conversion of existing EOLs.
  • Switchable visibility of EOL/whitespace characters.
  • Support for many text operations, which allows users to:
    • Upload selection/document to pastebin sites,
    • Convert to/from Base64 and Base64Url.
    • Convert to/from URL encoded text.
    • Convert to HTML escaped text.
    • Insert current date/time.
  • Support for external scripts, which allows users to:
    • Pass current selection/line/document/file to your script,
    • Run scripts with arbitrary interpreter (Python, Bash or some other executable).
    • Get output of scripts (as new file, replace selection/document, copy to clipboard, …).
    • Settings of external tools is completely portable.
• Misc:
  • Cross-platform easy-to-use plugin API.
  • Save/restore session in platform independent way.
  • All user data (settings, external tools definitions, …) are fully portable.
  • Depends only on Qt (Scintilla is bundled).
  • Relatively lightweight.
  • No JavaScript components, no bundled Chromium, no Electron, no web technologies inside.

Website: github.com/martinrotter/textosaurus
Support: Developer’s homepage
Developer: Martin Rotter
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Textosaurus is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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