“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.”
– Donald Knuth
GoatPad
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GoatPad is a text editor currently under development. Years of working with sub par and/or bloated editors finally motivated me to make my own.
- Currently available features:
- Syntax Highlighting
- Multiple viewing/editing panes
- Regular Expression find and replace
- Autocompletion (like IntelliSense©)
- Filesystem pane
- Token pane
The primary goals in its design are minimalism, ease of use, and felxibility. Notepad++ is my "goto editor" for most tasks that I don't want or need an IDE for, but it still lacks a few of the lighterweight IDE features while still being bloated with a liteny features I don't ever use. It's a great piece of software next to its competitors though.
I've always wanted something slightly leaner which comes with all the features one would want and not require third party plugins to get them. This would free it from the over engineered architectures which the allowance of plugins necessitates. In doing so it could address everything one would want from an editor without leaking into a build platform, source management tool, et al. while still performing the heavier weight editor features like multi-language tokenized syntax highlighting, diff comparisons, RegEx find/replace across many files, and even contextual token based autocompletion.
Here is a screenshot of it in its shitty neo-natal phase:
