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Custom terminal based text editor written in C89, ncurses and UNIX headers.

Features

  • Syntax highlighting.
  • Undo/Redo.
  • Status bar.
  • Under 40KB (~37KB).
  • Designed to be compliant with UNIX/POSIX operating systems.
  • Single file.
  • Shell panel.

Prerequisites

  • Use UNIX/POSIX based OS. (e.g. Linux)
  • Use GCC or any other C compiler.
  • Have ncurses installed.

How to use

Build it

gcc -o ced main.c -lncurses

Run it

./ced

Screenshots

ced in action

your terminal might look different, I use xfce4 terminal

Key Bindings

  • Ctrl+H: Hide/Show the keybindings.
  • Ctrl+Q: Quit
  • Ctrl+S: Save
  • Ctrl+O: Open
  • Ctrl+Z: Undo
  • Ctrl+Y: Redo
  • Ctrl+G: Goto Line
  • Ctrl+F: Search
  • Ctrl+R: Replace (prompts the old text and new text, then does a naive replace all in every line)
  • Ctrl+W: Shell panel toggle
  • Ctrl+E: Enter shell command
  • Ctrl+D: Duplicate current line
  • Ctrl+K: Kill (delete) current line
  • Ctrl+T: Toggle line numbers on/off
  • Ctrl+U: Jump to top of file
  • Ctrl+L: Jump to bottom of file
  • Home/End, PgUp/PgDn: Navigation
  • Mouse: Click to move cursor, wheel scroll

See Contributing for contribution.

Acknowledgements

License

ced is licensed under MIT License. Check LICENSE for more.

Notes

Syntax highlighting

  • Even though this uses a similar highlight.syntax file from my previous text editor they use a slightly different parser and the file itself is altered for better syntax highlighting.

Previous editor

  • This editor is very similar to the previous editor, this just only a true single file and made in C89.