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Mini text editor with highlighting code, made for PHP, Pascal, D, Lua, HTML and css or any text code.

Mini Edit

MiniEdit is an open source desktop application for editing files like PHP, HTML, CSS, Python, D, C and Pascal using UTF8 encoding. Also it can compile or run script of this files, if your already installed its compilers in your system, without need to open a project for it, if you are editing multiple files, e.g. Python, PHP it can run this files into console(cmd) or terminal(xterm).

Target

  • Simple (beginners or kids)
  • Portable
  • Fast

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Features

  • Portable, one executable file, take it any where.
  • UTF8, Ansi, and UC16LE, UC16BE encoding with BOM
  • Projects files, each project have special type/tendency (PHP, Lua, Python, Pascal, D)
  • Until now it is very Fast and very small
  • Search in files
  • Search for file
  • PHP XDebug
  • Tortoise SVN/GIT integrated in Windows, [TODO] RabbitVCS in Linux
  • [TODO] GDB debugging
  • Works in Windows and Linux
  • Compile and run Pascal, D, Go, Cpp (cpp todo not yet)
  • Run PHP, CMD, SH, BAT, Lua, Py
  • Semi themed colors can be customized easy

Languages supported

Name Methods Engine
PHP run, debug PHP
Lua run lua, luac, internal
Python run python
Basic run SmallBasic, YaBasic
Pascal compile, run FPC
D compile, run DMD
C compile, run
Go compile, run go
SL/OpenSim lint LSL
CMD, Bat run cmd.exe
sh run sh
csv show
btfont [TODO] edit, show

Disadvantages

  • Not good in auto complete
  • Can't open unkown files
  • Can't open a huge file like logs

Contributing

Keep it as simple as possible. There is an addons to add menu items to file or main menu tools.

Build

MiniEdit is FreePascal/Lazarus project, to compile it you need to install all packages that needed

  • Use source code from github.com in branch "release", or use last tag, branch "master" is my working upstream, it is not stable.
  • FreePascal FPC 3.2 or later
  • Lazarus last update from subversion repo, it is recommended, or use version 2.1
  • MiniLib https://github.com/parmaja/minilib
  • MiniCtrls https://github.com/parmaja/minictrls

Open each package in Lazarus and compile it in order.

Required Packages

minilib\lib\MiniLib.lpk
minilib\xml\source\MiniXML.lpk
minilib\socket\source\MiniSockets.lpk
minilib\connection\source\MiniConnections.lpk

minictrls\src\MiniCtrls.lpk

Competitions

Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Geany https://www.geany.org/

Textadept https://foicica.com/textadept/

CudaText http://uvviewsoft.com/cudatext/

PINote https://pinote.sourceforge.io/

Micro https://micro-editor.github.io/

mlsde https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlsde/