Textadept

9 comments

• rationably 7 minutes ago
  There is also NotepadNext which is oddly similar, sans the Lua: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext
• jasperry 2 hours ago
  I've looked into TextAdept a few times. It appeals to me because it's got a standard Qt UI, is fast and lightweight and highly customizable with Lua. But I could never commit the time to fully customize it for daily use. Anyway, I'm committed to emacs. Other Scintilla-based editors with a similar feel (but missing the Lua angle) are Geany and Kate.
• benrutter 2 hours ago
  > Unlimited split views.

  Ok, well now I have to find out what hapoens if I get enough splits to make the width of each less than a pixel.
• dang 28 minutes ago
  Related. Others?

  TextAdept - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571814 - March 2024 (31 comments)
• eleventyseven 40 minutes ago
  I recommend capitalizing TextAdept, as it took me way way way too long to figure out it wasn't text a dept (SMS which department????)
• mjtk 1 hour ago
  Always nice to see open source text editors, in my opinion. Textadept's codebase is a fine example.
• ramoz 1 hour ago
  Beautiful landing page
• WalterGR 3 hours ago
  What GUI text editor widget does it use, or is it home-grown?

  I don’t see it mentioned.

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  • keithnz 2 hours ago
    looks like it uses scintilla
  • jrm4 2 hours ago
    ? Seems to support GTK, Qt and ncurses?
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    • davidkwast 2 hours ago
      I saw that in the code on the github repo
• throwaw12 2 hours ago
  Do we still need text editors in the AI agents era?

  /s