editor

Just another text editor in C++

There are a lot of different text editor implementations, some of them are good enough, some of them not. Here is yet another text editor written in C++ only for studying purposes (and also for fun!).

Roadmap

• Simple text editor
  • Font
    • Use character tiles from stored PNG file as a font
    • Support monospaced fonts
  • Base key bindings
  • Scrolling
  • Mouse support
• UI
  • Panels for line numbers and cursor position
  • Selection using keyborad and mouse
  • History for undo/redo
  • Context Menu
  • Command mode
  • Multiple cursors
  • Wrap long lines
  • Tabs for editing several files simultaneously
• Tests

Getting started

Dependencies

• gcc or clang or other c++ compiler
• cmake
• pkg-config
• libconfig
• fontconfig
• SDL2
• SDL2_ttf

Installation

1. Install dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install gcc cmake libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libconfig++-dev libfontconfig1

2. Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/countMonteCristo/editor.git

3. Build project

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make editor

4. Run (from project home folder)

./bin/editor [TEXT_FILE]

Key Bindings

Key binding	Action
CTRL+S	Save file
CTRL+Z	Undo
CTRL+Y	Redo
CTRL+C	Copy selected text to clipboard
CTRL+V	Paste selected text from clipboard
CTRL+X	Cut selected text to clipboard
CTRL+A	Select whole text
↑←↓→	Navigation
PgUp	Go up on one screen
PgDown	Go down on one screen
CTRL+←	Go to begin of current word
CTRL+→	Go to end of current word
Home	Go to begin of current line
End	Go to end of current line

Features

There is a config file editor.conf, where all configurable settings are stored.

Contacts

Artem Shapovalov: artem_shapovalov@frtk.ru

Project Link: https://github.com/countMonteCristo/editor

Acknowledgments

• SDL2 wiki
• SDL2_ttf man
• libconfig wiki
• fontconfig wiki
• How to get font by name using fontconfig from stackoverflow