Mini Edit

MiniEdit is an open source desktop application for editing files like PHP, HTML, CSS, Python, D, C and Pascal using UTF8 encoding. Also it can compile or run script of this files, if your already installed its compilers in your system, without need to open a project for it, if you are editing multiple files, e.g. Python, PHP it can run this files into console(cmd) or terminal(xterm).

Target

• Simple (beginners or kids)
• Portable
• Fast

Features

• Portable, one executable file, take it any where.
• UTF8, Ansi, and UTF8, UC16LE, UC16BE encoding with BOM
• Projects files, each project have special type/tendency (PHP, Lua, Python, Pascal, D)
• Until now it is very Fast and very small
• Search in files
• Search for file
• PHP XDebug
• Tortoise SVN/GIT integrated in Windows, [TODO] RabbitVCS in Linux
• [TODO] GDB debugging
• Works in Windows and Linux
• Compile and run Pascal, D, Go, Cpp (cpp todo not yet)
• Run PHP, CMD, SH, BAT, Lua, Py
• Themed colors one for all languages, can be customized easy
• Saving macros https://github.com/parmaja/miniedit/wiki/SL-OSSL#macros

Languages supported

Name	Methods	Engine
PHP	run, debug	PHP
Lua	run	lua, luac, internal
Python	run	python
Basic	run	SmallBasic, YaBasic
Pascal	compile, run	FPC
D	compile, run	DMD
C	compile, run
Go	compile, run	go
SL/OpenSim	lint	LSL
CMD, Bat	run	cmd.exe
sh	run	sh
csv	show

Disadvantages

• Not good in auto complete
• Can't open unkown files
• Can't open a huge file like logs
• No external addons

Contributing

Keep it as simple as possible. There is an addons to add menu items to file or main menu tools.

Build

MiniEdit is FreePascal/Lazarus project, to compile it you need to install all packages that needed

• Use source code from github.com in branch "release", or use last tag, branch "master" is my working upstream, it is not stable.
• FreePascal FPC 3.3 or later
• Lazarus last update from subversion repo, it is recommended, or use version 2.1
• MiniLib https://github.com/parmaja/minilib
• MiniCtrls https://github.com/parmaja/minictrls

Open each package in Lazarus and compile it in order.

Required Packages

minilib\lib\MiniLib.lpk
minilib\xml\source\MiniXML.lpk
minilib\socket\source\MiniSockets.lpk
minilib\connection\source\MiniConnections.lpk

minictrls\src\MiniCtrls.lpk

https://github.com/zamtmn/metadarkstyle

Competitions

Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Geany https://www.geany.org/

Textadept https://foicica.com/textadept/

CudaText https://cudatext.github.io/

PINote https://pinote.sourceforge.io/

Micro https://micro-editor.github.io/

mlsde https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlsde/