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http://madedit.sourceforge.net/

MadEdit is an Open-Source & Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.
MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions, e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings.

Freeware, unicode supported, and can quickly change encoding, just like in a browser!

Good support for multibyte chars in hex mode.

Posted to the database. Thanks!

I am always looking out for Unicode text editors that supports CJK encoding, and MadEdit seems to have a lot of CJK-related functions eg. convert to simplified/traditional Chinese.

MadEdit v0.2.7 Beta has been released. ( http://madedit.sourceforge.net/ )


* ChangeLog: 2007/02/28

1.fixed that ISO-8859-7 charset doesn't available under Win32.
2.fixed that incorrectly handle Japanese halfwidth characters in Shift-JIS charset.
3.supported XIM Over-The-Spot feature under Linux/FreeBSD(wxGTK).
4.added options to set Date/Time format.
5.added a option to reload files previously open on startup.
6.added a option to restore previous caret position when files are opened.
7.fixed a crashing bug that incorrectly detect MAC/DOS new-line char on HTML/PHP files.
8.changed for showing CR, LF, CRLF and EOF in different marks.


* Features:

* MadEdit can run under Linux and Win32 platforms.
* Edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes.
* In Hex-Mode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).
* Users can change the encoding of files at runtime like Web-Browsers.
* Supports many encodings, e.g. Unicode(UTF-8, UTF-16/32 with Little or Big Endian), Big5, GBK and S-JIS etc.
* Supports Unicode CJK Ext-B.
* If users input a character that is not supported by current encoding, this character will be converted to U+XXXX. Unicode format.
* Regular Expression search & replace (by using Boost.Xpressive).
* Opens multiple files on single instance.
* Supports syntax-highlighting of many programming languages, e.g. awk, C/C++, CSS, diff/patch, DOS Batch Script, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Lua, Pascal, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, UNIX Shell Script, x86 Assembly, XML, Fortran, TeX/LaTeX, Squirrel, C#, Visual Basic, ASP(VBScript).
* MadEdit can view ASCII-Art files under Win32 platform.

Discontinued. wxMEdit is the updated fork:
https://wxmedit.github.io

xor wrote:Discontinued. wxMEdit is the updated fork:
https://wxmedit.github.io

Thanks. It is portable; settings in application folder, but not stealth:

\AppData\Roaming\wxmedit
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\wxMEdit]

Another MadEdit fork:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/madedit-mod/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-too ... -Mod.shtml

Looks like the developer is claiming bug fixes, Win10 compatibility, and drag-and-drop and word highlighting.

webfork wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:09 pm Another MadEdit fork:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/madedit-mod/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-too ... -Mod.shtml

Looks like the developer is claiming bug fixes, Win10 compatibility, and drag-and-drop and word highlighting.

Update on this: The MadeditMod is going strong and averaging about 4 updates / year. The latest version was about a month ago with the following changes:

New features and bug fixes
1.Fix: Disable safe mode in PanChinese search
2.Fix: String encoding bug in MadPython [#304]
3.Fix: print in MadPython can output Unicode string now
4.Fix: Reset MadMacro Dialog
5.Fix: Bugs in Macro Recording
6.Fix: Char display issue with certain font in search/replace input box [#305]
7.Fix: Layout issue of Source Formatter Dialog
8.Fix: MadPython range checking bug and recording bug
9.New: Configurable column number of the column hint indicator [#303]
10.New: Reset MadPython console output
11.New: JSON formatter [#306]
12.New: Automatically create new file if not exist [#300]
13.Improve readability of recorded MadPython
14.Set Recent files, Search/replace Text to true on PurgeHistory dialog
15.Add more Regex error strings for translation
16.Update Simplified Chinese translation
17.Update Japanese translation(Thanks Tilt)
18.Thanks ddowling for JSON formatter

EDIT: Status: Portable, writes to MadEdit.cfg and (because I changed the font) FontWidth.dat

Github page at https://github.com/LiMinggang/madedit-mod provides a fork enhancements feature list, full changelog, known issues and issue reports.

Impressive functionality built into a sub-10MB natively portable executable with no framework dependencies (with less than 30MB memory footprint with no files loaded). Also, I haven't tested this, but it surely sound impressive:

In HexMode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).

Only URL activation is missing from my trinity of must have lightweight text editor features -- others being case changing and date insertion.

Some UI quirks and usability could be fixed (chiefly, some menus need rearranging into sub-menus) and a better default icon (the 90's called and want the present one back... ), but overall a rare addition to my recommended list.

Tried the mod; gets sluggish fast with files above a few megabytes (at least when viewed as text not hex).

Midas wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:53 am In HexMode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).

A lot of them make that claim. There are only a few freeware editors that can effectively load large files.

TP109 wrote:

Midas wrote:In HexMode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).

A lot of them make that claim. There are only a few freeware editors that can effectively load large files.

Tell me about it. As soon as I wrote that, I recalled your excellent editor tests; I was just too lazy to check MadEdit out -- it's Summer and it gets hot in here...

Most of the tested editors that boast about handling large text files didn't live up to their claims. Most freeware editors able to handle large files didn't showcase that capability and just included it on their feature list. Large file processing looks good on a feature list, and since most users are unlikely to verify that, it's fairly safe for developers to make those kind of statements.