Cooledit is a full featured multiple window text editor with interactive graphical debugger, anti-aliased fonts, compiler interface, syntax highlighting for a wide variety of programming languages, UTF-8/UCS/Unicode support, Python extensibility, and many more features.

Cooledit is user friendly, powerful and lightweight, with a wide user base.

Please note that the FTP archive of sourceforge is depreciated. A binary is also no longer provided. Build your own. The source download links at the head of this page are the definative download points.

Latest version is 3.17.14
last updated 22 Jan 2005

       NEWS (3.17.8-14)

Jump to file on Ctrl-j
Complete in filebrowser with Ctrl-Tab
Debugger fixes and fixes for HP-UX
Various build fixes for different OS's
Insert history in all input widgets.
Shell command line on Escape pipes selected text through arbitrary commands (experimental).
Colour space options, black on white display.
Prolog syntax highlighting.
Gimp script syntax highlighting.
Valgrind auditing.

       NEWS (3.17.6-7)

Several minor bug fixes included optional window raise feature, syntax highlighting updates, crashes on bad gdb version number.

       NEWS (3.17.2-5)

These are bug fix releases including updates to syntax files.

       NEWS (3.17.1)

You can now execute any shell command by pressing Escape. The output will be redirected to insert at the cursor. Multiple simultaneous commands can be added, and blocks of highlighted text can be passed to the stdin of the process. This is much like vi.

Another cool feature is colour-space changes. Start with the --chromin-invert options. See --help for these new command-line options.

A trivial, but serious bug where cooledit hangs on "file not found" has been fixed in this patch.

       OLD NEWS

Cooledit now has a Gtk look. This was done by separating out the functions that do widget rendering. Sasha Vasko was previously responsibly for the NeXT look and feel, which inspired this effort, and is now a run-time and not a compile-time option. Note that Cooledit does not link with the Gtk library.

Anti-aliased font support has recently been added. This does not render anti-aliased fonts per se, but rather loads an ordinary font and then scales it with sub-pixel filtering. The loaded font must be 3 times the size. For instance,

    cooledit -font -winfonts-arial-bold-r-*-*-45-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1/3 \
	--red-first

Cooledit now supports uncode. To load a unicode font, use,

    cooledit --utf8-interpretation --all-characters --no-fontset \
	-font -gnu-unifont-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1