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Added it as new entry (private).

https://github.com/martinrotter/textilosaurus#features

[url]https://github.com/martinrotter/textilosaurus[/url] author wrote:Textilosaurus is simple cross-platform UTF-8 text editor based on Qt and Scintilla. Textilosaurus aims to provide similar workflow as Notepad++ does.

Interesting feature set.

Alas, upon testing the program in the 7z archive available from https://github.com/martinrotter/textilosaurus/releases all I get is an error... I'm assuming Textilosaurus is not natively portable.



Incidentally, skunkos private entry is located at https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2921.

@skunkos: as with your "Powerless" post (https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums ... =6&t=23327), it's ideal to post about something before adding it to the database since it may not qualify as portable (and may not get the votes necessary).

... a simple but future-rich cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

Did you mean "feature-rich"?

webfork wrote:Did you mean "feature-rich"?

that was me
fixed

Midas wrote:

https://github.com/martinrotter/textilosaurus wrote:Textilosaurus is simple cross-platform UTF-8 text editor based on Qt and Scintilla. Textilosaurus aims to provide similar workflow as Notepad++ does.

Interesting feature set.

Alas, upon testing the program in the 7z archive available from https://github.com/martinrotter/textilosaurus/releases all I get is an error... I'm assuming Textilosaurus is not natively portable.



Incidentally, skunkos private entry is located at https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2921.

Which error you get? Textilosaurus should be fully portable.

EDIT: OH see image, try latest release please, it was fixed.

skunkos wrote:Which error you get? Textilosaurus should be fully portable.

EDIT: OH see image, try latest release please, it was fixed.

Problem solved with current release.

Some further info: license is GPL v3 (see "About").

https://github.com/martinrotter/textilosaurus wrote:Textilosaurus is simple cross-platform UTF-8 text editor based on Qt and Scintilla. Textilosaurus aims to provide similar workflow as Notepad++ does.

My personal appraisal: although I'm fully aware Textilosaurus isn't a Notepad replacement, two of the three basic features I consider when evaluating a text editor are missing. Although a complete case changing function is present (see "Edit | Text case conversion"), automagic activation of URLs and .LOG function are not (most Scintilla based editors can't do the 2nd).

As for the rest, Textilosaurus is an nimble and seemingly comprehensive programmers oriented text editor, albeit a late comer to a somewhat crowded software field.

Latest Textilosaurus 64-bit portable release (currently build 0614bc8 dated 2017-12-20) downloads available from https://github.com/martinrotter/textilosaurus/releases.

What is exactly "automagic activation of URLs".

How should ".LOG function" feature look? What should it do?

The application is very young. I started it from scratch few weeks ago. I have internal TODO list which I must finish first to consider Textilosaurus good-enough editor for me. SO it is NOWHERE to be considered "finished" yet.

https://imgur.com/a/765sF - textilosaurus can highlight/navigate to URLs, it detects links starting with http,https, ftp, mailto, i can add detection of http-less links too.

skunkos wrote:What is exactly "automagic activation of URLs".

I refer you to examples such as NFOPad (https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2164), granny win32pad (https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=691) and editor2 (viewtopic.php?p=63002#p63002) that all have this feature -- see line 3 in the screenshot below? Granted they all seem to be based on Windows riched32...

skunkos wrote:How should ".LOG function" feature look? What should it do?

In MS Notepad, when a plain text file first line contains the string ".LOG", each time that file is opened, a time-stamp will be added. Both NFOPad and win32pad have this feature...

skunkos wrote:The application is very young. I started it from scratch few weeks ago. I have internal TODO list which I must finish first to consider Textilosaurus good-enough editor for me. SO it is NOWHERE to be considered "finished" yet.

I didn't mean to diss your work in any way. In fact, I am very favorably impressed by it. Keep up the great work.

Can you please file a bug report for "LOG" feature?

No problem. Textilosaurus does partially support URL recognition, but only when you hover your mouse over it. I will maybe add it fully, but it could backfire for big files, could slow it down.,

skunkos wrote:Can you please file a bug report for "LOG" feature?

Done! See https://github.com/martinrotter/textilosaurus/issues/17...

skunkos wrote:Textilosaurus does partially support URL recognition, but only when you hover your mouse over it. I will maybe add it fully, but it could backfire for big files, could slow it down.

In such cases, either a set maximum parsing limit or an user option/alert to disable the feature might be the solution.

In my summary testing, when hovering over the URL shown above, nothing happened (granted, it isn't preceded by "http://", but the examples I mentioned would have activated it).

Incidentally, I feel the present topic should be moved to the "Development" sub-forum. What do you think?

So, how do I make textilosaurus entry public?

Yes, you can move to development.

skunkos wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:54 pmSo, how do I make textilosaurus entry public?

Textilosaurus latest dev build (textilosaurus-2018.01.03-6e5f24a-win64.7z) implemented the .LOG function.

However, at least in my system (Windows 7 x64) the result was the date format shown below...



For it to be of any use, please make it user customizable or at least ISO compliant ("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss").

Moreover, on trying to correct it, I found out that there seems to be no easy way to insert the current time string (F5 on Notepad).