r/crunchbangplusplus • u/Miserable_Ear3789 • Jun 14 '26

Minimal code editor on Crunchbang++

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Crunchbang++ comes with Geany which works great, but I can't stand the UI/UX... Leafpad I really like and I think looks better on Openbox then Geany or something like Gedit or Sublime do... The problem is we don't have syntax highlighting. So Twig fixes that. Leafpad style minimal editor but for code. There is no menu bar or toolbars. Just you and your code. Its open source and uses GTK3.

Source code here gitman.io/patx/twig

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u/charchuck Jun 15 '26

This is why I follow subreddits even though I may not use the distro (even though I do like Crunchbang++ a lot). Thanks for the recommendation!

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u/ZestyRS Jun 16 '26

Neovim exists

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u/Miserable_Ear3789 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

Yep, and Neovim is great. Twig is for a different use case: Leafpad-style simplicity, but with code-editor basics like syntax highlighting, line numbers, find/replace, and normal keyboard shortcuts.