TextVation is a simple text editor driven by innovation. It is written in C and privides a simple, lightweight, and efficient environment for text editing.
- TextVation supports basic text editing functionalities like insertion, deletion, and navigation through the text.
- It handles arrow keys (left, right, up, down), page up/down, home and end keys.
- It supports syntax highlighing for C and C++, with highlighting for keywords, numbers, and strings.
- TextVation is extensible and new features can be added with ease.
- It operates in raw mode, handling all the input directly for a more controlled user experience.
To compile and run the text editor, use the provided Makefile. Run the make command in your terminal to compile the program, and then start the text editor with the created executable.
make
./textvationYou can open a file by providing the filename as an argument:
./textvation filename.txtHere's a brief guide on how to use TextVation:
- Arrow Keys: Use the arrow keys (up, down, left, right) to navigate through the text.
- Page Up/Down: Scroll through the file a page at a time.
- Home: Move the cursor to the start of the line.
- End: Move the cursor the the end of the line.
- Ctrl-Q: Quit. If there are unsaved changes, you will need to press this twice in succession without saving.
- Ctrl-S: Save the current file.
- Ctrl-F: Find a string in the file. You can use arrow keys to navigate through the matches.
TextVation was developed with a focus on simplicity and efficiency. It uses standard libraries like <ctype.h>, <errno.h>, <fcntl.h>, <stdio.h>, <stdarg.h>, <stdlib.h>, <string.h>, <sys/ioctl.h>, <sys/types.h>, <termios.h>, <time.h>, and <unistd.h> to achieve its functionalities.
This work is a derivative of the tutorial by snaptoken released under a CC BY 4.0 license. Snaptoken's work is inspired by Salvatore Sanfillipo (aka antirez) and released under the BSD-2 clause license (see kilo.LICENSE). All the files under this repository are licensed under the BSD-2 clause.