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Crimson Editor portable

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:57 am
by rbon
Hi,
Crimson Editor is actually developed from Emerald Editor Team: http://www.emeraldeditor.com/
This Team develop the version for Windows32 and Linux.
You can find the rel. 3.72 rev. 241 of Crimson Editor portable (Win32) at Sourceforge.net:
- Download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=168261
- Download direct link portable: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/emeral ... g_mirror=0
You can find the X-version at winPenPack - download page: http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php?view.1090
This build rel 3.72 rev. 241 is reasonably stable.
You can find dictionary of other languages (ascii file) at PsPad - download page: http://www.pspad.com/en/download.php
Regards

Re: Crimson Editor portable

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 8:32 pm
by webfork
Old thread update:

Homepage offline, linking to archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20130809170 ... ditor.com/

Still some positive reviews up on the Sourceforge page, despite the age: https://sourceforge.net/projects/emeraldeditor/

Re: Crimson Editor portable

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 4:56 am
by rbon
Crimson Editor updated info:
• official Homepage: http://crimsoneditor.com/
• Sourceforge download page rel. 3.72 rev. 286m: https://sourceforge.net/projects/emeral ... .72-r286m/
• Sourcerforge direct download portable (.zip): https://sourceforge.net/projects/emeral ... p/download
• Sourcerforge direct download portable (.7z): https://sourceforge.net/projects/emeral ... z/download
• Source code for rel. 3.71 (now is Open Source): http://www.crimsoneditor.com/download/cedtdev.zip

B.t.w.
Crimson Editor source code can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (or higher).

Re: Crimson Editor portable

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:19 am
by Midas
rbon wrote: Crimson Editor updated info:
• official Homepage: http://crimsoneditor.com/
• Sourceforge download page rel. 3.72 rev. 286m: https://sourceforge.net/projects/emeral ... .72-r286m/

...

FYI, a previous Crimson Editor discussion can be found at viewtopic.php?ft=836.

Crimson Editor is still a very capable programming oriented text editor packed in a minute (~1,2MB) executable -- if not for the lack of Date/Time string customization and some UI quirks under Windows 10, namely the fact that, because the CE executable is unsigned, it triggers a warning on every launch about it wanting to change system settings...

The last version referenced in the homepage is v3.72, released 2008-05-14 -- while the one you mention above was released in 2011-10-01, which probably still makes it fully XP compatible (untested!).

FTR, Crimson Editor portability is achieved by placing 'global settings.ini' in program folder with the following content:

Code: Select all

[Settings] 
Portability=1 
Current SF.net 'cedt-286M-X.X' MD5 hashes are:
ZIP
64557c2ef67b9c97f4d27c06fe6c00d4
7Z
a0daa78ff5b61bec2772c5d4d4fabbbf
EXE
b1e05e1d978c9a641902c8ff1dedc9af
Nice to see such gems aren't going to waste, BTW. 8)

Re: Crimson Editor portable

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:17 am
by rbon
Crimson Editor
Here another detailled info about this editor:

Features
Crimson Editor is a professional editor for Windows32 with partial Unicode support and UTF-8 encoding (from rel. 3.70).
The program is written in C ++ and derives from the development work carried out by a new team, after the original author († Ingyu Kang: South Korea - Seoul) had stopped development and donated the sources to the open source community (29/12/2006).
Its features are:
• natively 'portable' (from release 3.72 for Windows32);
• edits numerous documents at the same time;
• syntax highlighting and support for over 100 programming languages ​​including:
HTML, CSS, C / C ++, Delphi, Perl, Python, Java, Mathlab, LaTeX, SQL, MySQL, VBScript, Visual Basic 6.0, Lua, AutoIt (used for X-Launcher), DOS Batch, AWK (text manipulation), ABAP / 4 (for SAP http://www.abap4.it/), Apache Configuration, PostScript (for PDF), Ruby, TeraTerm Macro (for telnet), AutoLISP (for AutoCAD) etc .;
• Unicode support and UTF-8 encoding, with drag and drop of the edited text http://www.crimsoneditor.com;
• multilevel undo/redo (unlimited buffers);
• Sophisticated search and replace with full regular expression (RegEx) support (Henry Spencer library - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer);
• switchable word wrap scrolling (does not affect indentation);
• configurable indent;
• editing in column mode with alternation (switch) between line and column mode (key Alt + C);
• spelling checker (English language) with 100,000 words (cedt.dic file);
• user dictionary with words in any language (InstallDir /user.dic): it is an ascii file (you can use the dictionaries made available by PSPad, after renaming it to 'user.dic')
• tools and macros menu;
• execution of external programs with appropriate arguments (external program start options);
• compile, execute and test the compiled code;
• ease of memorizing macros (record & execute);
• view the tree of directories;
• opens a document quickly (double click)
• filter to view only certain types of files (for instance *.c or *.pas);
• edit files on remote servers using the internal FTP client;
• stores parameters for automatic connection to the remote server(s);
• print and print preview;
• configurable headers and footers;
• print with line number;
• print with syntax highlighting;
• selection of 'true type' fonts;
• view changes made to the open file (s);
• multi-byte support with integrated IME (for external languages);
• auto indentation etc .;
• edit files of any size.
Dictionaries
• cedt.dic (Crimson Editor Data Table): used for spelling checker
• user.dic: thesaurus
cedt.dic has precedence over user.dic.
You can use one dictionary at a time (cedt.dic or user.dic): if You need a dictionary in another language, please:
1. download the desired dictionary
2. extract the archive file
3. rename the dictionary as 'cedt.dic'
You can download dictionaries from PSPad /Download -> Spell-check dictionaries https://www.pspad.com/en/download.php
Files cedt.dic and user.dic are tabled ASCII files: You can edit them with Crimson Editor itself.

Online Help
online help is at http://www.crimsoneditor.com/english/docs/index.html

Recent files
recent files list is stored in file cedt.wks, another ASCII file.

Configure Crimson Editor with an external compiler
(use it as IDE)
1. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FsYN8y ... dBABGAE%3D
2. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vCVrXRM--E

Crimson Editor portable by winPenPack:
1. last ufficial build is 'X-CrimsonEditor_3.72-rev286M_rev4.zip'
2. I have updated this build with last X-Launcher ver 1.5.4 and updated build is 'X-CrimsonEditor_3.72-rev286M_rev5.zip'

X-CrimsonEditor_3.72-rev286M_rev5.zip:
- MEGA: https://mega.nz/file/KR4gEYoK#Aum7_5rkC ... AtyGEFsCAM
- MD5 hash: 3d040aeaf9021da9c4d1a4d252b5d4d0

Download the file 'X-CrimsonEditor_3.72-rev286M_rev5.zip', extract, then run X-CrimsonEditor.exe (X-Launcher) with admin privilege.