typewriter

Typewriter inspired text editor at the command line, written in Common Lisp using the croatoan library.

This is a text editor which behaves like a typewriter: the text slides rather than the cursor, character inputs overwrite anything under the cursor, and there is no backspace or delete, only 'white-out' using the space character.

Installation

To build typewriter using SBCL:

sbcl --eval "(progn (ql:quickload :croatoan) (exit))"
sbcl --load typewriter.asd --eval "(asdf:make :typewriter)"

This will create the typewriter executable.

Usage

To create or edit a file:

./typewriter FILE

Navigating Text

• Arrow keys move the cursor in their corresponding direction.
• Backspace moves the cursor backward.
• Tab and backtab move the cursor forward and backward respectively by a number of cells equal to the config variable *slide-width*.

Editing Text

• Printable characters are written at the cursor position and move the cursor forward.
• Use the space character to clear a cell.

<CTRL> Commands

• <C-s>: Save the text to FILE.
• <C-q>: Exit typewriter.

Dependencies

• SBCL
• Quicklisp
• ncurses

License

Copyright (C) 2020-2022 Robert Coffey

This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.