CudaText
CudaText is a cross-platform code and text editor for macOS that helps you edit source files, markup, and large plain-text documents efficiently.
What is CudaText?
CudaText is a cross-platform code editor and text editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is designed for users who work with source code, configuration files, markup, and large text documents, and it fits well into everyday programming and scripting workflows. Published by Uvviewsoft, the app includes syntax highlighting for many languages, tabbed editing, split views, code folding, multi-carets, and regular-expression find and replace. It also supports JSON-based configuration and a command palette, giving users a flexible way to customize editing behavior. Through add-ons, CudaText can extend into features such as project management, external tools, spell checking, formatting, and language-server support. This makes it useful for developers, power users, and anyone who wants a lightweight native editor with broad language support.
Key features
- Edit code and plain-text files with syntax highlighting for many languages.
- Work with multiple cursors and selections to make repeated edits quickly.
- Use split views and tab groups to compare and edit files side by side.
- Search and replace with regular expressions for advanced text editing tasks.
- Navigate structure with code tree support when a language definition provides it.
- Extend the editor with plugins for tools such as LSP, formatters, snippets, and project management.
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
CudaText is a legitimate code editor used for creating and editing local files, so its access to documents you open is expected for its purpose. Any plugins or external tools you add can broaden what the app can do, including reading project files or invoking developer utilities, so install add-ons carefully and keep them limited to sources you trust. Removing the app should not affect macOS itself, but you may lose editor settings or plugin configuration if you also delete its support files.
Recommendation: Keep CudaText if you use it for coding or text editing on your Mac. Remove it if you no longer need it, and if you want a cleaner uninstall, also remove its support and preference files after confirming you do not need your saved settings or plugins.
Common paths
/Applications/CudaText.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/CudaText
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.uvviewsoft.cudatext.plist
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