Build Your Own Text Editor

Post by pklausler » Mon, Apr 10, 2017, 3:57 PM UTC

aktau wrote: post #158

pklausler wrote: post #122

I got fed up with the standard offerings back in '07 or so and hammered out my idea of a code editor that's perfect for me over a long weekend. It mmaps files initially for instant response, it has a small sensible command set that I can remember completely, it depends on nothing more than the standard C library and a terminal emulator, and it's not many more lines of code than some Emacs configuration files that I'v…

Cool. Is it public? What data structure do you use for the modifications?

Post by JHonaker » Tue, Apr 18, 2017, 1:14 AM UTC

jason_slack wrote: post #125

JHonaker wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Um... Can I use it too? That sounds amazing.

really? I mean, I could probably make a version for folks to test. It only has git support and SFTP. Committing to git currently works, push works, but sometimes says it fails. Still looking into this. Color syntax highlighting works with your handwriting, but in the "worksheet" (an interactive shell) it does not yet.