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Shim editor

a simple terminal-based text editor written in C from scratch, that takes advantages of the capabilities of modern terminals and comes with minimal dependency requirements (it's not even using curses).

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It now supports:

  • open & save (one file at a time)
  • read and write files in text format
  • scrolling
  • incremental search
  • syntax highlighting

Installation

Compiling

$ git clone https://github.com/tonisidneimc/shim
$ cd shim/
$ make install

Running

To create and edit a new file, run shim with no command-line arguments, as follows:

$ shim

Or to edit and existing file, provide the absolute or relative path to the file:

$ shim /path/to/your/file

Images

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Acknowledge

Thanks to antirez and his tutorial Build your own Text Editor for inspiring me with his project kilo.