Crimson Editor
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| Crimson Editor | |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Ingyu Kang |
| Latest release | 3.70 / September 22, 2004 |
| Preview release | 3.72 / June 21, 2007 |
| OS | Windows |
| Genre | Text editor |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | http://www.crimsoneditor.com |
Crimson Editor is a freeware text editor. It is typically used as a source code editor, and HTML editor, for Windows.[1][2]
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[edit] History
In April 2006, the question was reopened as to whether a new version of Crimson Editor would be created, since no version had been released since September 2004, and several attempts to contact the author had gone unanswered. On December 30, 2006, Ingyu Kang finally posted a message announcing Crimson Editor as an open source project.[3] Crimson Editor is now being maintained and modified by the members of the Emerald Editor community.
A ground-up rewrite inspired by Crimson Editor, started before the open source announcement, is underway. The rewritten version has been named Emerald Editor and will be released as open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is being developed for use on Windows.
[edit] Features
Crimson Editor features Windows shell integration, tabbed document interface, syntax highlighting, multiple undo/redo, column mode editing, bracket matching, auto-indentation, spell checking, direct editing of text files in FTP and the integration with compilers. Unicode (although only for the characters within the default character set of Windows) and various newlines are supported. Crimson Editor also supports the use of macros. The built-in calculator can evaluate simple expressions. Basic mathematics functions, and date functions are also available.[1][4][5]
[edit] Reviews
Crimson Editor has been extensively reviewed and well received.[6][7][8] It has been described as a very good editor and pseudo-IDE interface for programmers to use.[2] It has been highlighted that it has a good set of features, syntax highlighting for lots of formats, and includes integrated FTP. However there are some memory issues with several (full project) files, and it sometimes crashes.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Crimson Editor 3.70", Niketu Shah, Techtree
- ^ a b "Crimson Editor", SpeedGuide
- ^ "Crimson Editor Open Sourced", Crimson Editor Discussion Board
- ^ "Crimson Editor", Joint Technologies
- ^ "Features of Crimson Editor", Crimson Editor
- ^ "Crimson Editor", SnapFiles
- ^ "Crimson Editor: Text editor", Channel web
- ^ "Crimson Editor 3.70", Softpedia
