[HN Gopher] CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, w...
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CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in
Lazarus
Author : berryton
Score : 63 points
Date : 2022-08-05 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| breadchris wrote:
| I thought this was going to tell me about a hardware accelerated
| text editor.
| moffkalast wrote:
| Ray tracing for your fonts!
| smartmic wrote:
| I had to change my editor every now and then in the last years,
| because something bothered me... the eternal search for the holy
| grail, so to speak. So Vim and Emacs have already fallen by the
| wayside. Now I'm actually stuck with CudaText. In my opinion the
| editor is really first class, I recommend to try it out.
|
| For me, however, also very exciting is the realization that
| Lazarus/FreePascal programs generally always stand out very
| positively. The speed and memory efficiency is remarkable!
| [deleted]
| sigzero wrote:
| Screenshots etc.
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| https://cudatext.github.io/
| mhd wrote:
| Hmm, interesting genesis:
|
| > When it was 2014 or 2015, we had some big events in Russia
| (Crimea related) so many people here were excited. I was too, so
| I wanted to program some new project.
|
| https://sourceforge.net/blog/march-2020-community-choice-pro...
| actionfromafar wrote:
| So it started as a celebretion of the annexation of Crimea by
| Russia?
| JasonFruit wrote:
| It could be, "With all the excitement going on, finding a
| nice programming project to distract me seemed like a good
| idea."
| [deleted]
| yardshop wrote:
| Cool! I just learned about this editor randomly about a week ago
| [1], then mentioned it on the thread about Double Commander the
| other day, a file manager also written in Lazarus [2].
|
| I'm just about to get it to compile. I'm writing a Python version
| of the Bash script that downloads and installs all of the
| packages. It's a learning project so it's pretty messy but I
| intend to clean it up and submit it to the developers at some
| point.
|
| CudaText is nice, I'm using it to write this compiling script to
| get to know it better. It's sort of SublimeText-adjacent but also
| its own thing. I already have a long list of things I want to
| replicate from my Sublime setup.
|
| [1] http://lazplanet.blogspot.com/2018/05/spotlight-cudatext-
| hot...
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| [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331716
| themodelplumber wrote:
| The author is really responsive. I reached out about the
| ability to make snippets run external commands and place the
| output in the editor. Within a day I think he had implemented
| it as a plugin.
|
| I use like 100+ of these snippets in Geany, so it was awesome
| to see it become a feature in another interesting new editor.
| libpcap wrote:
| What's with the CUDA reference?
| dmitrybrant wrote:
| It's from the Serbian word "cuda", which is pronounced "chuda".
| It means "miracles", and also occurs in many other Slavic
| languages (Russian "chuda", etc)
| thebooktocome wrote:
| Perhaps it's short for barracuda?
| weare138 wrote:
| There's a note buried at the bottom of the page:
|
| _Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it
| means "miracles"._
| lightdot wrote:
| That got me wondering at a first glance too. But in this case,
| the word stands for "cuda" not CUDA.
|
| Cuda = miracles, wonders, in Serbian (and several other
| languages).
|
| And odd conglomerate of words from different languages perhaps,
| one even anglicized (ASCIIzed?) at that... Well, it does get
| the people talking, I suppose.
| Uehreka wrote:
| In trademark law, the owner of a mark (Nvidia in the case of
| CUDA) can usually make someone stop using a mark if it would
| lead to "consumer confusion about the source of the goods"
| (i.e. people seeing "CudaText" and assuming it has an
| association with Nvidia/CUDA).
|
| IANAL, and have no idea how likely Nvidia would be to succeed
| in a trademark dispute with this developer. But in situations
| like this, it's often good to just not use a name if a large
| section of your target audience could become confused upon
| hearing it. Even if you didn't know about the other product
| when you came up with your name, and even if it's technically
| legal.
| ziotom78 wrote:
| The detailed list of features is here:
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| https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText
|
| I did not know of this project, but it looks really good. It's
| nice to see projects developed in Lazarus!
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