sakura-editor/sakura

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1481 stars · 199 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Sakura Editor is a free, open-source Japanese text editor for MS Windows, written in C++ and released under the Zlib license. It supports macro automation, regex-based search and grep, and runs on Windows 10/11 in recent versions.

Use cases

• edit Japanese text files on Windows
• free lightweight text editor for Windows
• search and grep across files with regex
• automate editing tasks with macros
• open-source Notepad replacement for Windows

When to choose

• you need a Windows-native editor with strong Japanese text handling
• you want a free, open-source editor with macro and regex grep support
• you prefer a lightweight desktop editor over an IDE

When to avoid

• you need a cross-platform editor for macOS or Linux
• you need an IDE with debugging and project management
• you need modern collaborative or cloud-sync editing features

Facets

application · maturity active

editor developer-tools text-editors windows developer-tools windows cpp japanese-text-editor text-editor macro-support grep regex-search zlib-license localization desktop

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