ced

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

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

• ncurses

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.