proh14 / ptext

A nano like text editor built with pure C

ptext

A nano like text editor built with pure C

ptext is a text editor based on kilo.
My goal in making this was to learn more about managing tui interfaces not using ncurses.

Preview🙈:

preview.mp4

How to install⬇️:

1. Clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/proh14/ptext.git
cd ptext

2. Run make inside this repo's main directory.

make

3. go to build directory

cd build

4. run ptext!

./ptext <filename>

OR to install you may run the command

make install

then restart your shell and run

ptext <file name>

to start the editor.

Documentation📖:

If you installed ptext (with the make install command) on a *nix system you can simply run

man ptext

to see the maual page of ptext. Otherwise take a look at [./docs](./docs] directory to see the manual in diffrent formats! The markdown version of the manual

Goals🥅:

1. Add visual mode (Selecting, copy selection, paste selection, delete selection).
2. Fix replace.
3. Add keyboard configuration(like bind-key CTRL_X exit).
4. Add syntax highlighting configuration.
5. Add file browser mode.
6. Add shell mode.
7. Add a self contained help-system.
8. Add vertical and horizontal split.
9. Add VI mode.
10. Add utf support.

Work in progress⚒️:

This is still a work in progress project!

Contributions💖:

I appreciate contributions but first of all, you must read the
Read the CONTRIBUTING.md Then you can send your pr!

Thank you Stargazers⭐:

Thank you Forkers🍴:

A huge thanks to🙏:

1. viewsourcecode
2. kilo