AnotherEditor

AnotherEditor is a fast, lightweight, and highly hackable cross-platform code editor built with Go + Qt6 + QScintilla.

It aims to deliver a clean native experience with strong remote editing capabilities and flexible language support — perfect for developers who want a pragmatic, no-nonsense editor that stays out of the way.

Built for Real Developers

AnotherEditor focuses on speed, reliability, and daily usability:

• Native Qt6 feel — responsive, beautiful dark/light mode support
• Tabbed editing with proper dirty state handling and close prompts
• First-class FTP/SFTP remote editing — edit files directly on servers with background transfers, conflict detection, and atomic saves
• Optional LSP integration — completions, hover, diagnostics, and go-to-definition with background workers
• Flexible syntax highlighting — built-in lexers + powerful TextMate-style grammar system (great support for Go, Swift, PowerShell, and more)

Powerful Remote Workflow

• Open, browse, and save files via ftp:// and sftp://
• Background cancellable transfers with live progress
• Save conflict detection and staged atomic writes
• Git credential helper support
• SFTP host key verification with first-use onboarding
• Session reuse and automatic reconnect

Perfect for editing on remote servers, containers, or embedded devices.

Smart Language Support

• Excellent built-in lexers for C/C++, Python, JavaScript, JSON, YAML, and more
• Bundled TextMate-style grammars for Go, Swift, and PowerShell
• Load external grammar directories for custom languages
• Project-wide identifier autocomplete
• Language Server Protocol (LSP) support with manual & automatic features

Clean & Configurable

• Persistent view settings (font, tabs, whitespace, line endings, etc.)
• Open Recent menu
• Find & Replace, full undo/redo stack
• Status bar with useful context
• Explicit dark mode palette for perfect readability

Excellent Platform Integration

• Linux desktop entry + MIME integration
• macOS app bundle with Finder "Open With"
• Windows installer with registry integration
• Automated Forgejo releases for all platforms
• Manual update checker

Current Status

AnotherEditor is an experimental but very usable code editor. It is under active development and already handles real daily editing tasks well — especially remote workflows and LSP-powered coding.

There are currently no public releases. The project is intended primarily for my own use.

Built with passion as an experimental project to explore what a modern Go/Qt editor can be.