Text Editor Features

• Fast
• No limit on the number of files that can be open simultaneously

• Drag-and-Drop via the XDND protocol

  

• Easy to use window for searching and replacing text, even in multiple files (This runs in a separate thread so you can continue working.)
• Supports the XSearch protocol.

• Graphical comparison of text files (via GNU diff)

• Context-sensitive highlighting while you type
  (Code Crusader uses a lexer, which is much more accurate than other editors that only use string matching.)
• Keyword completion
• Typing macros
• Parenthesis, brace, and bracket balancing in existing text and while you type
• Auto-indent & block indent
• Automatic paragraph reformatting

• Run external scripts to process selected text

• Read and convert between UNIX, Macintosh®, and DOS/Windows® files

• Unlimited depth undo
• Backup files
• Safety save as protection against X server crashes

• Remembers preferred window geometries for each file type

• Save files via the Direct Save (XDS) protocol

  

• All configuration done via dialog windows instead of config files

• Text file templates reduce the work required to create new files.

• Option to use other text editor (e.g. emacs or vi) if you don't like the built-in one (These do not integrate with the symbol browser and the class inheritance trees, however.)