The time has come to say good bye

[tmsg]

I've been an AkelPad user for decades but all good things come to an end. I've looked for a couple years now for a replacement (with better encoding heuristics and, more importantly, a Linux version)... no great luck. geany is ok (and does Linux) but AP is a better editor.

Well, good news (especially for friends of text editors done by Russians ): I've found a superb open-source editor called CudaText (created by a chap called Alexey Torgashin) that is in many respects as good as AP and in some even better. And it comes with support for a lot of platforms including Windows, various Linux distros, MacOS, Solaris as well as Free-, Net- and OpenBSD.

I've worked with that editor for a fortnight and have now switched completely, from AP under Windows and from geany under Linux.

See http://uvviewsoft.com/cudatext/ for more details and downloads.

[sexy96]

The sort function for large files does not work,
the program hangs.
There are quite a few problems with ToolBar.
Spelcheck only HunSpell in which you can not change the dictionary.

[tmsg]

The sort function for large files does not work,
the program hangs.
There are quite a few problems with ToolBar.
Spelcheck only HunSpell in which you can not change the dictionary.

Do you realise that the developer has adressed the sorting problem?

Can't say anything about toolbar handling as I don't use any.

I can definitely change spellcheck dictionaries, both under Windows and Linux. And anyway I have never found a working spellcheck plugin for 64-bit Akelpad. Do you?

YMMV.

[tmsg]

Well, after more than a year of using it I can take stock of my recommending Cudatext (C).

Plus:
1. In principle C is a much more capable editor than either AP or geany.
2. The platform portability is normally working very well.
3. The dev is very willing (and also pretty quick) to add new features and kill bugs.

Minus:
1. The dev is unwilling to test his own releases. So sometimes I install a new version and some important feature just doesn't work OOTB (there have also been releases that simply crashed). OK, so the dev reacts quickly but this still leaves a bad feeling. Also, new features are often not fully thought through or designed in a haphazard way and implemented only half-baked.
2. The dev sometimes changes functionality in such a way that a running installation just won't work anymore. This means digging through a heap of changes and/or the options file to find what exactly has changed. It would be much better if those changes were done in a backwards compatible way.
3. The Python interfaces (for plugins) between platform are somewhat of a mess as there's no attempt to standardise on a certain version.

For those able to live with these points, C is a very good editor. I have suggested a few times to the dev to create stable versions which are well tested and to test new features and releases with intermediate versions but apparently this doesn't work well with his style of development.

In a word -- a very mixed picture.

[AEN007]

Greetings, all "out there" ...
I'm not (yet") so "enamored" with CudaText ...
In fact I (still) prefer&use SynWrite
(by the same author of CudaText)

I am now (re-)discovering AkelPad's versatility ...
Glad this Forum is still accessible/active
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AEN007