Cooledit

cooledit is a modern programmer's text editor and integrated development environment with graphical debugger.

Contents

• Installation
• Why?
• Usage
• Features
• History
• Source Map

Installation

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Binaries

See https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/editors/X/cooledit/

Prerequisites

cooledit requires the FreeType library for fonts. Many features do not work without the support of additional packages. You will need the files pkg-config, gdb, aspell, grotty, libfreetype.so.6, and libX11.so to be installed on your system. See INSTALL.freebsd for required FreeBSD packages, or check for an available port. See INSTALL for building the latest FreeType from source code and building into /opt/cooledit. For Ubuntu, install libx11-dev, libfreetype-dev, gdb, aspell, aspell-en, and groff-base.

Quick Build: Install From Source

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Why?

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cooledit provides the most crisp and honed user experience of any editor. It is designed to be used both entirely with and without a mouse. It is for people that spend most of their work time in an editor. Written with its own widget library, it boasts the fasted GUI response times of any graphical application.

Usage

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Here are some startup options for cooledit:

cooledit
cooledit -font large
cooledit -h
coolman gcc
coolman cooledit

Features

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Syntax highlighting

cooledit supports over 100 languages, scripts, and file formats.

In-place shell support and text processing

Esc and a shell command pipes the current highlighted block through the shell command. A very powerful feature.

Clipboard history

cooledit remembers everything you have cut, copied, or pasted.

Remote access tool

Run remotefs on a remote machine to access files using cooledit. On MS Windows run REMOTEFS.EXE in a command prompt. remotefs is a near-instantaneous way to browse directories and edit files from a remote machine.

Unicode Support

cooledit has support for most of Unicode 15 and will render almost any glyph imaginable, as well as the capability to enter raw characters and determine encoding correctness.

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History

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cooledit began as the text editor mcedit for the Midnight Commander project in 1998 and was presented by me at the 1999 Atlanta Linux Showcase.

Source Map

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cooledit/
├── widget [widget library]
│   └── syntax [unit tests for syntax highlighting]
├── notosans [selected google .ttf files to cover most of unicode 15 ]
├── remotefs [remote access server]
├── man [documentation]
├── rxvt [built in shell terminal]
├── syntax [syntax highlighting rules]
└── editor [executables]