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Writing an editor

The text editor is antirez’s kilo, with some changes. It’s about 1000 lines of C in a single file with no dependencies, and it implements all the basic features you expect in a minimal editor, as well as syntax highlighting and a search feature.

  • Simted3 Simted3 stands for Simple Text-based Editor. It is a command-shell based text editor that enable user to edit, save, and view any type of file in ASCII format

  • mle mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C.

  • The Craft of Text Editing is a book about text editing. Good reading.

  • EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor This paper was written by Richard Stallman in 1981 and delivered in the ACM Conference on Text Processing.

  • Text Editor in system software in C “C” program to implement “Text Editor” with features like insertion, deletion

  • How To Build A Simple Text Editor? A Tutorial Text editor is a commonly used application that can process text file. The main functions of a text editor include “Open/Save file”, “Edit/View content”, etc. In this tutorial, we will show how to build a simple text editor based on WTL objects.

  • The Traditional Vi This is the source code for the original VI editor.


Written by John F. Moore

Last Revised: Wed 09 Sep 2020 12:07:11 PM EDT

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