A terminal text editor built in C with the help of Build Your Own Text Editor by Snaptoken
This has been developed on WSL and will work on Linux or MacOS. Will not work on Windows.
- Clone the repository
- Run
make - Alternatively, compile the
kilo.cfile with any C compiler of your choice. - Run
./kiloto open a new file in the current directory - Run
./kilo [filename]to open the filename.
- Standard text operations - adding/removing text/lines
- Incremental search with arrows keys to go up/down results
- Basic syntax highlighting of numbers, comments, keywords, strings in C
- Status Bar with file name, number of lines, file type
- Prompt Bar for search, save, etc.
- Ctrl-S to Save, Ctrl-S on a new file to save as [filename]
- Ctrl-F to search
- Ctrl-Q to quit. Requires multiple presses of Ctrl-Q to quit an unsaved buffer.