andreas-bauer / file-editor_OWN_CPP

Simple command-line editor

file-editor_OWN_CPP

Table of contents

• General info
• Prerequisites
• Build
• Commands
• License

General info

Simple command-line editor. Takes a directory as an argument and opens the files in that folder. Now have all the basic functionalities of a file editor.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have installed all of the following prerequisites on your development machine:

• g++ to compile the code
• cmake as build tool

You can install the prerequisites as follows:

On Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install cmake g++ make

On Fedora/CentOS: sudo dnf install cmake gcc-c++ make

On macOS: brew install cmake

Build

To unit test and debug build run:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug . -B./build
cd build
make

# Run debug build
./file_editor.out

# Run unit tests
./unit_tests

To create a release build run:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release . -B./build
cd build
make
./file_editor.out

This will create an executable binary in the build/ folder.

If you are using Visual Studio Code then we recommend the CMake Tools Extension to build, debug, and run the application.

Commands

Commands
Exit program	Ctrl-Q
Switch file	Ctrl-W
Save file	Ctrl-S

License

Copyright (c) 2022 Albin Persson

This work (source code) is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.