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CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

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Re: CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

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Post by Sin2x »

breadchris wrote: post #18

I thought this was going to tell me about a hardware accelerated text editor.

From 2020 interview:

SF: What is the next big thing for CudaText? AT: A mate of mine, young programmer Artem Gavrilov from Saint Petersburg, has suggested that editor rendering should be in OpenGL, and he has good experience in 3D graphics and Pascal. I am thinking now how this can be done, it’s a lot of coding even with ready OpenGL libraries. This will make scrolling in editor much smoother. And another idea: make configurable docked panels. CudaText has several panels (Code Tree, Project Manager, Console, Output, etc.) but they are locked in the side or bottom, no configuration, panel cannot be moved from side to bottom, no docking to the right. It’s not needed much but configurable panels are handy.

Re: CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

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Post by dmz73 »

Alexey_Tor wrote: post #30
actionfromafar wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it started as a celebretion of the annexation of Crimea by Russia?

The CudaText author is here. No, I did not celebrate the Crimea 'annexation' (in local Ru talks, we cannot name it 'annexation', we must name it 'reunion'). But I was reading such big amount of news at that time, in 2014, that I was excited only from this wave of news. Many patriotic people in Rus were happy and welcomed that. Many opposition people in Rus were not happy and did not welcome that. But the wave of news…

Any chance you can add code completion to python terminal? That would make cuda-text a super-editor on the level of vim and emacs but easier to use.

Re: CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

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Post by Alexey_Tor »

Uehreka wrote: post #13
lightdot wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That got me wondering at a first glance too. But in this case, the word stands for "čuda" not CUDA. Čuda = 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.

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…

Author of CudaText here. If I will get the complain from NVIDIA I can rename the project to 'CudeText', word 'cude' is 'miracle'. Now I think that similar name was a little mistake from my side, I needed to name it 'CudeText' earlier.

Re: CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

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Post by Alexey_Tor »

dmz73 wrote: post #33
Alexey_Tor wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CudaText author is here. No, I did not celebrate the Crimea 'annexation' (in local Ru talks, we cannot name it 'annexation', we must name it 'reunion'). But I was reading such big amount of news at that time, in 2014, that I was excited only from this wave of news. Many patriotic people in Rus were happy and welcomed that. Many opposition people in Rus were not happy and did not welcome that. But the wave of news…

Any chance you can add code completion to python terminal? That would make cuda-text a super-editor on the level of vim and emacs but easier to use.

'Python terminal' is 'Console panel', do you mean it? Yes we have the plugin for that! "Plugins / Addon manager / Install", item "Console auto-completion". Ctrl+Space hotkey will work in console.

Re: CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

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Post by lf-non »

dragosbulugean wrote: post #34

Product Marketing Issue: As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus.

As a user of "Hacker" News, you are potentially .... a hacker, who is quite likely to care if it is possible to hack on it in general (hence it matters that its open source) and you also likely care if it is easy for you to hack on it in particular (hence the implementation and plugin languages matter too).

Re: CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

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Post by ChefboyOG »

dragosbulugean wrote: post #34

Product Marketing Issue: As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus.

Hacker News is a largely technical community. If there was any community that would respond to your product being open source, interoperable, or written in a niche language, this would be it.

Re: CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

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Post by Alexey_Tor »

pkphilip wrote: post #39

This editor is crazy fast and is only a 15MB download (.deb)!

CudaText has its slow parts (scrolling by Mouse-wheel is not smooth), we are limited by the fact of missing hardware acceleration. But it has its fast parts: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editor...
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