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Pragtical

The practical and pragmatic code editor

Lightweight

~50 MB of RAM, ~10 MB of disk space. Pragtical runs on many devices without performance issues.

Powerful

Syntax highlighting, multiple cursors, command palette and many more. LSP and other features are available as plugins.

Hyperextensible

Pragtical allows you to extend the editor via Lua and its C API. Documentation is available for many parts of the editor.

Cross-platform

Built on SDL, C and Lua, Pragtical runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. Porting to other systems is trivial.

Easy to Use

Easily change your editor settings, color theme, key bindings and installed plugins configuration using the graphical settings manager.

Free & Open Source

Pragtical is licensed under the MIT license. No telemetry or data collection.

Recent Blog Posts

This is an emergency release that fixes a bug on the TreeView plugin sizing calculation. The bug caused a constant calculation of the TreeView width…

Many fixes and new features like the image viewer, built-in color picker, support for drawing polygons, introduction of a canvas api and experimental…

Mostly a bugs fix release with build system adjustments and a tiny bit of enhancements sprinkled on the top. ## Prominent Fixes Some of the fixes i…

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