A text editor in C

I created this text editor by taking refrence from kilo text editor. This is made purely for educational purposes. I had fun creating this masterpiece. Eventhough it is not anywhere near the modern text editor but the fact I created it of my own is satisfactory. You can open, save, close any file you want in this editor. You can search for a word, goto a specific line, switch between open files along with copy, cut and paste whole lines. A menubar to display the open files and the current file in focus.

I learned a lot of memory management as well as new libraries and their amazing features in this mini project.

Their is a good chance I won't be completing all the additional functionalities I have added above.

ref: Kilo Text Editor

Documentation: Here

Demo

Search and gotoLine

Additional functionalities

• Open and close brackets, quotes
• Goto Line
• Open multiple files
• Menubar to display open files
• Sidebar to display line numbers
• Close a specific file
• Cut, Copy and paste whole lines
• Cut, Copy and paste selected area
• Relative line numbers (Done but not visible to user)
• Syntax Higlighting for java
• Auto indent
• Scrolling with touchpad/mouse
• Debian package created

Setup

• Clone the repository
• Open terminal in the root directory of the repository
• Run make
• bin/kilo is the program created
• run bin/./kilo without any arguments else give it a file name present in current directory

Installation

zilo.deb is package build using bin/kilo. If you want you can install zilo on your linux system as well. Just run the following command:

sudo apt install ./zilo.deb

Shortcuts

• Ctrl-s => save current file
• Ctrl-o => open a file
• Ctrl-n => open a new file
• Ctrl-g => go to a line
• Ctrl-w => close current file
• Ctrl-q => quit the editor
• Ctrl-f => find a word in current file
• Ctrl-c => copy current line
• Ctrl-v => paste line from clipboard
• Ctrl-x => cut current line
• Ctrl-t => view next file from menubar
• Ctrl-r => view prev file from menubar
• Home => To reach the starting of current line
• End => To reach the end of current line
• Page Up => To move one page up
• Page Down => To move one page down

Bugs

Some bugs I am too lazy to fix.

• Menubar give up when there are too many files or the file name is too large
• After a find search is done, the color is not reverted back to normal
• After pressing enter the search doesn't stop at the given line number, instead it moves to the first find query.