FrostEd Alpha 1

Posted by Johannes Stein on Jul 19, 2010 in Applications, Development | 1 comment

So I finally decided to release FrostEd Alpha 1. If you don’t know what FrostEd is, click here for more information. Remember it is an alpha version, so there is a lot not working here, but I’m already using it productively for my job and some programming stuff where I don’t have to use and IDE.

So, here is a list what is working (because the list with the stuff what is not working would be much longer):

- Opening, editing and saving files
- Find, search replace (although that’s buggy)
- Mostly everything SynEdit supports that means code folding support Object Pascal, HTML and XML
- Full syntax highlighting support CSS, Diff, HTML, Java, Lua, LFM, Object Pascal, Perl, PHP, Processing (including the whole Processing API), Python, Shell, SQL, TeX, Visual Basic and XML
- Partial syntax highlighting support for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, C# and  HaXe

Download here:

Download FrostEd Alpha 1 for Mac OS X (7,2 MB)
Download FrostEd Alpha 1 for Win32 (0,8 MB)
Download FrostEd Alpha 1 source (1,0 MB)

License: GPL3

Sourcecode Notes:
You need Lazarus to view or edit the source code. Install all components from /Third-Party. TMyRollout is licensed under GPL2 and has some small modifications made by me to use TBitBtn instead of TButton.

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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.

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