neoeedit

neoeedit - a smart, light, powerful text editor.

intro to neoeedit

Open source, BSD LICENSE
Written in Java
Highly customized Java Swing GUI editor component
Stable, performant, crash proof
Good Unicode, CJK support, Good font handling
Rectangular mode
Integrated IME support
Also an image viewer
Also a command line console (no tty no input support)
Script ( in Java )
Advanced search (like grep)
Smart philosophy:
- when encounter a problem , instead of panic, it find solutions to go on
- when you don’t configure , it find best option for you
Small executable(200KB?), no bloatware. drop features that not often used while need lots code
No online data transmission or any telemetry, means privacy protected
Since 2009

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Default key-bindings:(can be changed in config file, located in $homedir/.neoeedit)

<kbd>ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>C/V/X</kbd>: copy/paste/cut

<kbd>ctrl-1</kbd>: go to file (and lineno) of current line.
<kbd>alt-E</kbd>(or <kbd>F9</kbd>): execute current line as command line
<kbd>ctrl-O</kbd>: list files in current dir, then use ctrl-1 to open one of them.
<kbd>alt-P</kbd>: move cursor between pair marks. (works on (){}<>)
<kbd>ctrl-L</kbd>: goto line
<kbd>ctrl-A</kbd>: select all
<kbd>alt-A</kbd>: select and copy current line
<kbd>ctrl-D</kbd>: delete current line
<kbd>ctrl-R</kbd>: remove all trailing spaces
<kbd>alt-H</kbd>: show hex for selected string
<kbd>alt-W</kbd>: wrap lines (at cursor position, CJK character's counted as two.)

ctrl-S: save file
F2 : save as

ctrl-N: new empty document in current window
ctrl-M: new empty document in new window
ctrl-TAB: show all documents in window. You can jump to one of them by press ctrl-1 on it.
ctrl-Q: quick switch between documents.
ctrl-W: close current document, and record to open file history.
alt-L: launch current line using system default launcher (for file, executable, text, or URL).
ctrl-H: open file history
ctrl-P: print (beautiful)

ctrl-Z: undo
ctrl-Y: redo

ctrl-F: find/replace
F3 : find next
F4 : find prev

ctrl-E: set encoding
F5 : reload with encoding

alt-left alt-right: quick indent
home end, ctrl up,down,left,right: cursor control

Keywords highlighting (java,c,python,lua,shader 500+ keywords)
Comments auto detection, like # // -- /**/
drag and drop files to open
F1: help
ctrl-F1: show banner

Encoding auto detection . for UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, SJIS, GBK. Good unicode support.

replace/find in files, and in dir/sub-dir

alt-\: rectangular mode
alt-/: switch line between / and \ (for path seperator)

ctrl-mouse scroll: zoom in/out
ctrl-0: zoom reset

alt-f:list fonts, then ctrl-1 on it to set font

alt-j: script to process on the text

alt-c: switch between preset color modes, there are 3 now: White, Black, Blue.

alt-S : change line seperator between windows(\r\n) and unix(\n)

alt-R : readonly mode (for novel reading)

It's also a image viewer! View large JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG images easily.
    Left, Right: view previous/next image
    Up, Down: rotate image
    0: reset image
    Ctrl-W / H / O: functions like what it did in text editor mode
    F1: toggle thumbnail
    `[` `]`:slide show speed
    ctrl-click, ctrl-drag to select an area, then ctrl-s to save.


Configurable font List (in config file)

Plugins:
how to use: copy plugin jar into [home-dir]/.neoeedit/plugins/


ctrl-space: toggle IME (need plugin `neoeime`, support Chinese,Japanese,English etc.)
ctrl-shift-f: format source (need plugin `neoeformatter.jar`, support Java, C or C liked, Lua, json)

select text using both mouse and keyboard
cursor keys: up down left right home end(also Ctrl-Enter) pageup pagedown
alt-pageup, alt-pagedown, alt-mouse scroll: horizon cursor movement

(more...not listed or not added)

How to use

Just download a single jar to start: https://github.com/neoedmund/neoeedit/raw/master/dist/neoeedit.jar

Linux:

java -Xmx2G -jar neoeedit.jar $1 &

Windows:

add to content-menu using neoeedit.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Open with neoeedit]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Open with neoeedit\Command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk9\\bin\\javaw.exe\" -Xmx1000M -jar \"C:\\neoe\\neoeedit.jar\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Copy full name\Command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk9\\bin\\javaw.exe\" -cp \"C:\\neoe\\neoeedit.jar\"  \"neoe.ne.CopyFullName\" \"%1\""

(optional) download [exe|https://github.com/neoedmund/neoeedit/raw/master/neoeedit.exe] and put same dir with neoeedit.jar
or without neoeedit.exe:

start javaw -Xmx2G -jar neoeedit.jar %*

install plugins

copy plugins/*.jar into [userhome]/.neoeedit/plugins/

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