A Notepad++-style Text Editor for COSMIC

In my first post I described the taskbar and the other small tools I built after moving from Windows to COSMIC. The tool I now use most is a different one: a patched COSMIC Text Editor with the Notepad++ habits I missed. What it does Session restore. Like Notepad++, the editor brings back every tab from last time, including unsaved changes and untitled drafts, with the cursor, the scroll position and the window size. Closing the window does not ask to save; closing a single tab with unsaved changes still does. One window. Opening a file while the editor runs, by double-click or “Open with”, adds a tab to the running window and brings it forward, instead of opening a second window. Change marks. A thin bar left of the line numbers shows what I changed: orange for unsaved, green for saved in this session. Inside an orange line the changed words are tinted. A click on an orange bar, or Compare with saved, shows my unsaved changes against the file on disk. Changed on disk. When another…

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