FrostEd – Cross-platform text editor

Posted by Johannes Stein on Jun 16, 2010 in Applications, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | 2 comments

When I switched to Mac OS X something I was really missing was an easy-to-use and free advanced text editor, something like Notepad++ on Windows. I found Smultron and Fraise which are really great editors but lack some features regarding some syntax highlighters and code folding and I came across some annoying bugs when I’m trying to edit larger source code or text files.

What I’m looking for in a text editor (and I’m trying to implement those “features” to the best I can):

Fast (especially startup time)

Netbook-/Nettop-compatible

Codefolding

Indent/Unindent lines

Syntax highlighting for at least C/C++, Pascal (Object Pascal or FreePascal dialect) and XML

Good Find-and-Replace-function

Live Search in text files (or something similar)

Editing two files at the same time

Currently I’m trying to decide on a license (MIT, MPL or GPL), but after that’s decided I will officially release it which will possibly be in a few days.