gulkbag/virtuous-editor

A minimalist text editor purely done in C and VT100 ASNI codes

Virtuous-Editor

A minimalist text editor purely done in C and VT100 ASNI codes

No ncurses nothing, why? because it's simple, it can be built by any linux compiler, without any fiddling with make files or any other thing Keep in mind this is a hobbyist project and not meant for commercial or actual use at all

Key bindings

CTRL-S - save CTRL-Q - quit CTRL-F - find

Usage - virtuous <file name>

Syntax Highlighting

Currently there is syntax highlighting for

• PHP
• C/C++
• Lua
• Python
• Javascript
• Vim script

other languages will come soon enough

Pallete changing

Simply change the color values inside the editorSyntaxToColor function, adding syntax highlighting for special files is documented inside the file

Building

Virtuous can be built with any C compiler for example gcc -o virtuous virtuous.c Recommended way of building it though for not getting any warnings is gcc -o virtuous virtuous.c -Wall -W -pedantic -std=c99 For the program to be in your path simply do cp virtuous /usr/bin/

Preview

Credits

Thanks to Colin/C. Night for coming up with the pallete and name for this editor