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Slate is a fast, simple text editor for Windows and Linux, including the Raspberry Pi: a better Notepad that opens files of any size. An 800 MB JSON file or log shows up in a fraction of a second and stays smooth to scroll and search, because Slate only reads and draws the part you're looking at.
The everyday editing is all there: tabs that come back with your unsaved changes, find and replace with regular expressions, syntax colors for 52 languages, line tools, bookmarks and printing. For data files it adds JSON and XML formatting and checking with a structure view, and "show only matching lines" turns a huge log into just its errors.
On Windows, Slate is one signed, portable Slate.exe that updates itself. On Linux it installs from a .deb with its own apt repository. Free and open source under the MIT license; the source is at github.com/jamesccupps/Slate.
Features
- Opens huge files instantly: an 810 MB JSON file on screen in 14 ms
- Fast search: 435,571 matches in an 810 MB file in 0.3 seconds
- Find and replace with match case, whole word and regular expressions
- Show only matching lines: filter a big log down to its errors
- JSON and XML: format, minify and check, with the error's line and column
- JSON and XML structure panel and path bar (Windows)
- Syntax colors for 52 languages, including Python, PPCL, PowerShell and more
- Tabs and unsaved changes come back the next time you open it
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