A mildly temperamental console-based text editor for linux.
LoonixEditor, the console-based text editor for linux is currently being rewritten.
Honestly, I didn't know what I was doing when I first wrote LoonixEditor. Because of this,
an editor full of horrible code practices and bugs was formed. I intend on rewriting from the
ground up, only borrowing some of the newer which I think to be "acceptable".
Hopefully, the new editor (which will keep the original name) will run faster, be less buggy,
and be a nicer project to work on as a whole. This rewrite may take a while but hopefully, it will
be worth it in the long run.
As well as being a complete code rewrite, I plan on adding many new features that just wouldn't be possible
with the current state of the project. Such features include:
- Lua plugin support
- Multiple view editing
- Integrated file manager
- Custom keyboard shortcuts
- Better menus
I will move this version of the editor to its own branch where it may rest for the rest of time, I will most likely
call the branch LegacyEditor (a play on LoonixEditor).
Fun fact is, this isn't the first iteration of LoonixEditor. The original working title for this was
LoonixEditor 2 as it was a rewrite of an even worse project.
We can only hope the best for LoonixEditor 3
See you then :^)
LoonixEditor running with dark header enabled and vim theme
F1 Help menu
F5 Option Menu
Ctrl + N New file
Ctrl + O Open file
Ctrl + S Save file
Ctrl + A Save as filename
Ctrl + Alt + O Open in current buffer
Ctrl + X Close file
F6 Diff bar toggle
F7 Low CPU toggle
F8 Indentation guide toggle
Ctrl + Alt + RightArrow Move to next file
Ctrl + Alt + LeftArrow Move to previous file
Alt + RightArrow Move to next file
Alt + LeftArrow Move to previous file
Ctrl + F Find string
Ctrl + R Find and replace
Ctrl + U Jump to line
Ctrl + L Line info
Ctrl + T Todo Manager
Ctrl + D Duplicate line
Ctrl + K Cut line
Ctrl + / Comment line
Ctrl + Up Move line up
Ctrl + Down Move line down\
Themes can be placed in ~/.ledit/themes directory. By running setup.sh, the directory will be generated and the packaged themes will be copied in.
To change the current theme you can go into ~/.ledit/main.config and change the theme value.
If you want to create your own theme I would recommend copying the default theme and altering the values. The values are just ansi escape sequences so you can customize pretty deeply.
You can compile LoonixEditor on windows however you will need tools such as the linux subsystem
or git bash to compile and run it in.
With linux you can compile LoonixEditor using g++
g++ LEditor.cpp
If you get any errors that references c++98 try the following command
g++ -std=c++11 LEditor.cpp
Loonix editor doesn't use any third-party libraries so it should be compatible with any modern c++ compilers.
If you find any bug within LoonixEditor feel free to open a new issue and ill get round to looking at it,
please try to include a detailed description of the bug and how you got it to trigger.
Semi-regular releases will be issued to github.
If you have any issues with the releases try building from source.
- Satomatic - (Brian Thomson)