FOSSPicks
Text editor
CudaText
We've made it through a couple of months without giving in to the temptation of reviewing yet another text editor. But CudaText is worth the break because it genuinely offers some unique features that other text editors don't. It's also worth pointing out that this isn't a text editor designed to help you with NVidia's GPU processing platform, CUDA, as its name might imply. CudaText is instead an editor written with the Lazarus IDE in the Pascal programming language, a language that might be familiar to anyone who studied computer science in the '80s or '90s (like me!). This might also help to explain its best feature, because CudaText is truly cross-platform. And we don't just mean Linux, Windows, and macOS. We mean FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Solaris, and even Haiku. CudaText runs on all of these, sometimes making it the platform's best GUI-driven text editor. We only wish there was an additional Amiga version.
This is important because CudaText is crammed full of modern features. There's a tabbed UI (optionally powered by Qt on Linux), regular expression support, syntax highlighting, code folding, multiple splits, and a JSON configuration file. There's even code completion and picture preview if you're editing HTML or CSS files. But the real power comes from a plugin system that can extend the regular functionality with extra options to help with your specific tasks. There's a snippet library for code clips, spellchecker, code linter, diff viewer, and merge manager, plus tools for managing an entire project tree and individual sessions. After adding a few plugins, CudaText can start to feel more like an IDE than a text editor, and that's what makes it so powerful. It's a good, functional editor without any further modification, but if your needs grow, the editor can also grow with your project. And it works on almost any system you're likely to have encountered over the past 20 years.
Project Website
https://cudatext.github.io/index.html
MIDI librarian
Buy this article as PDF
(incl. VAT)
Buy Linux Magazine
Subscribe to our Linux Newsletters
Find Linux and Open Source Jobs
Subscribe to our ADMIN Newsletters
Support Our Work
Linux Magazine content is made possible with support from readers like you. Please consider contributing when you’ve found an article to be beneficial.
![Learn More](https://www.linux-magazine.com/var/linux_magazin/storage/images/media/linux-magazine-eng-us/images/misc/learn-more/834592-1-eng-US/Learn-More_medium.png)
News
-
NVIDIA Released Driver for Upcoming NVIDIA 560 GPU for Linux
Not only has NVIDIA released the driver for its upcoming CPU series, it's the first release that defaults to using open-source GPU kernel modules.
-
OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 Released
If you’re into rolling release Linux distributions, OpenMandriva ROME has a new snapshot with a new kernel.
-
Kernel 6.10 Available for General Usage
Linus Torvalds has released the 6.10 kernel and it includes significant performance increases for Intel Core hybrid systems and more.
-
TUXEDO Computers Releases InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 Laptop
Sporting either AMD or Intel CPUs, the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 is an extremely compact, lightweight, sturdy powerhouse.
-
Google Extends Support for Linux Kernels Used for Android
Because the LTS Linux kernel releases are so important to Android, Google has decided to extend the support period beyond that offered by the kernel development team.
-
Linux Mint 22 Stable Delayed
If you're anxious about getting your hands on the stable release of Linux Mint 22, it looks as if you're going to have to wait a bit longer.
-
Nitrux 3.5.1 Available for Install
The latest version of the immutable, systemd-free distribution includes an updated kernel and NVIDIA driver.
-
Debian 12.6 Released with Plenty of Bug Fixes and Updates
The sixth update to Debian "Bookworm" is all about security mitigations and making adjustments for some "serious problems."
-
Canonical Offers 12-Year LTS for Open Source Docker Images
Canonical is expanding its LTS offering to reach beyond the DEB packages with a new distro-less Docker image.
-
Plasma Desktop 6.1 Released with Several Enhancements
If you're a fan of Plasma Desktop, you should be excited about this new point release.