c-edit

An elementary terminal-based text editor written in C

Special thanks to @antirez for providing the helpful guide/tutorial I used to start the development

Prerequisites

• make
• A C compiler

# on Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential

# on Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S base-devel

Build

Move into the main folder and execute

make

Then, the executable is available via ./c-edit. You can use it as a stand-alone command or you can pass a text file as an argument.

Commands

• Ctrl + q: quit
• Ctrl + s: save