Code Pad Text Editor: Lightweight Multi-language Coding Tool
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Extension summary
The editor supports a variety of programming languages!
Currently supported:
Apache, Bash, C/C++, CoffeeScript, CSS3, Dockerfile, GitIgnore, GoLang, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Less, Lua, Markdown, MS SQL, Perl, PHP, PHTML, Plain text, PostgreSQL SQL Python, Ruby, Rust, Sass, Scala, SQL, TypeScript, XML, XHTML, and a few more..
Code Pad Text Editor is a free, lightweight text editor for code crafted for Chrome OS. Code Pad allows you to write simple code snippets or build complete programming applications and projects easily, straight on your Chromebook.
P.S. You can also use Code Pad Text Editor as a simple text editor (notepad), if that's all you need (duh)...
Some nifty features:
- Full project browsing & management
- Over 20 familiar themes (Monokai, etc...)
- Choice of crisp mono-spaced editor fonts
- Ready-made code snippets
- Syntax error & bug detection/alerts
User reviews
- Simple and native editor for Chrome OS
- Good integration with Google Drive
- Offline functionality
- Auto-closes tags
- Useful for low-powered Chromebooks
- Issues with tab management (closing tabs can close the whole app)
- Initial default to JavaScript instead of plain text
- Lack of support for certain file formats (e.g., .png)
- Missing features like regular expression support and debugging for multiple languages
- Problems with repo cloning
- Great app
- Works well for programming on Chromebooks
- Nice interface
- Helpful tool for low-powered devices
- Needs improvement in file type support and functionality
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Extension safety
Risk impact
Code Pad Text Editor requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Code Pad Text Editor has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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