vikonix/multitextor

Multiplatform command line text editor.

Multitextor

Cross platform console mode text editor.

This project is mostly recreated version of my old text editor.

In progress

• Editor 2.0.0-beta version.

Key features

• Simple user friendly interface same in different environments (with menu and dialog)
• Mouse and keyboard cursor movement and selection
• Multi-window
• Split view mode with 2 panels
• Clear working with different text code pages
• Different select modes
• Working with macros
• Big files editing over 4 GBytes (with small memory using)
• Deep Undo/Redo
• Customizable key commands and some interface parameters
• Customizable syntax highlighting
• Editor session saving/restoring
• Searching in on disk files

Will be implemented in the next versions:

• Backup files
• Random access bookmarks
• Build-in file comparing mode

Editor screenshot.

Tested on

Linux/Windows/OSX/FreeBSD

• Windows 11 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 / 2019 / 2017
• Windows 10 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 / 2017
• Windows 7 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017
• Linux Ubuntu 18.04 - gcc version 9.3.0
• Linux Ubuntu 20.04 - gcc version 9.3.0
• Armbian Focal OrangePI 4

For building it needs a compiler with C++ 0x17 full support.

Minimal requirement: gcc 8.0 or MSVS 2017

Need to install packages in Linux

• sudo apt-get install -y libncurses5-dev
• sudo apt-get install -y libgpm-dev
• sudo apt-get install -y gpm (only for mouse supporting in console)

How to build

• Install CMake 3.15 or higher

• Install g++-9 or clang or MSVC

• Run CMake: cmake -B _build -S .

  or cmakegen.bat

• Build editor

  • in Linux run: build.sh
  • in Windows try to run: msbuild /p:Configuration=Release Multitextor.sln
  • or open solution _build/Multitextor.sln with MSVC

• Get editor in Linux _build/bin/multitextor or in Windows _build/bin/Debug|Release/multitextor.exe

Linux: get binaries packet from snap

Snap packet link:

• Install: snap install --edge --devmode multitextor

• Update: snap refresh --edge --devmode multitextor

Windows: get zip archive from AppVeyor CI artifacts

Zip archive link:

multitextor's Issues

Top menu item name "Block"

CudaText and SublimeText name this menu as "Selection" so I suggest to rename "Block" to "Selection>.

after exiting from app, Ubuntu Terminal color becomes grayish

(it was black before running the app).

I use Snap version.

Don't build in Slackware current

I checked all the depends.

But i can't compile it.

`root@sl-alive:/tmp/multitextor# ./cmakegen.bat

• -- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.2.0
• -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.2.0
• -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
• -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
• -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
• -- Detecting C compile features
• -- Detecting C compile features - done
• -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
• -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
• -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
• -- Detecting CXX compile features
• -- Detecting CXX compile features - done
• -- Looking for pthread.h
• -- Looking for pthread.h - found
• -- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
• -- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Failed
• -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
• -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
• -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
• -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
• -- Found Threads: TRUE
• -- Configuring done
• -- Generating done

`

[ 6%] Building CXX object Utils/CMakeFiles/UtilsLib.dir/src/Clipboard.cpp.o
[ 8%] Building CXX object Utils/CMakeFiles/UtilsLib.dir/src/CpConverter.cpp.o
In file included from /tmp/multitextor/Utils/src/CpConverter.cpp:28:
/tmp/multitextor/Utils/inc/utils/IntervalMap.h: In constructor ‘_Utils::IntervalMap<TKey, TVal>::IntervalMap(TVal)’:
/tmp/multitextor/Utils/inc/utils/IntervalMap.h:44:22: error: ‘numeric_limits’ is not a member of ‘std’
44 | m_diaps[std::numeric_limits::lowest()] = value;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/multitextor/Utils/inc/utils/IntervalMap.h:44:41: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token
44 | m_diaps[std::numeric_limits::lowest()] = value;
| ^
/tmp/multitextor/Utils/inc/utils/IntervalMap.h:44:44: error: ‘::lowest’ has not been declared
44 | m_diaps[std::numeric_limits::lowest()] = value;
| ^~~~~~
In file included from /tmp/multitextor/Utils/src/CpConverter.cpp:30:
/tmp/multitextor/ThirdParty/inc/widecharwidth/widechar_width.h: At global scope:
/tmp/multitextor/ThirdParty/inc/widecharwidth/widechar_width.h:533:5: warning: ‘int {anonymous}::widechar_wcwidth(uint32_t)’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
533 | int widechar_wcwidth(uint32_t c) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [Utils/CMakeFiles/UtilsLib.dir/build.make:90: Utils/CMakeFiles/UtilsLib.dir/src/CpConverter.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:196: Utils/CMakeFiles/UtilsLib.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2

What can I do?

Pls think about integrating these highlighters

https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/tree/master/src/languages

Suggestion to rework tabs/spaces commands

For tabs/spaces work, currently app has the weird checkboxes in the "File Properties" dlg.

I suggest to make it like in Sublime Text and CudaText.

• make the "Tabs" or "Spaces" cell in the lower statusbar
• on clicking this cell, show dropdown menu with several check-items, and/or commands

CudaText has this

• if "tabs as spaces" on: statusbar cell name is "Spaces: 4" (4 is tab width)
• if "tabs as spaces" off: cell name is "Tabs: 4" (so cell is renamed)
• dropdown from this cell shows items:

Python syntax

Python allows strings with triple quotes. they are multi-line.
not supported.

UTF8 signature is shown as some char?

Why do you show this char?

wording: UnIndent

I don't know the word "Undent". We have "Indent" and "Unindent".

Term "type file" in the F3 dialog

Can you use modern term: "syntax" (or "lexer" but "syntax" is better)?

editor cannot highlight HTML comments

new.zip

Comments are not hilited:

Mark for modified file in the top bar

You show - [ M] filename, but it's weird, why not to show star-char?
Like *filename with star-char.

Number prefixes in *.lex files

    "1_LanguageName": "C++",
    "2_FileExtentions": "*.c;*.cc;*.cpp;*.h;*.hpp",
    "3_Delimiters": "[]{}();",
    "4_NameSymbols": "$",
    "5_SpecialCombination": [],
    "6_LineComments": [
      "//"
    ],
    "7_OpenComments": [
      "/*"
    ],
    "8_ClosedComments": [
      "*/"
    ],
    "9_ToggledComments": [],

It's weird. Numbers are not needed here, you can read words. Numbers make it hard to read.

The window should be initialized with the current size.

The window should be initialized with the current size, in the Windows version.

return SetSize(m_saveInfo.dwMaximumWindowSize.X, m_saveInfo.dwMaximumWindowSize.Y);
==>
return SetSize(m_saveInfo.srWindow.Right + 1, m_saveInfo.srWindow.Bottom + 1);

support UTF-16 LE and BE

inline const static std::u16string c_utf16Bom{ u"\xfeff" };
shows that you support only UTF16 LE, but UTF16 BE has swapped signature: FF FE.

Configurable top statusbar

Can you make this bar contents the option? with macros. so default value can be option value like [{LineCount}] L:{LineIndex} C:{ColIndex} .

typo: "Unindent"

{MENU_ITEM, "&Unident In Block", K_ED(E_EDIT_BLOCK_UNDENT), "Unident inside of selected block"},

unINdent.

Ctrl+Q for quit

Many GUI apps on Linux use Ctrl+Q for quit hotkey. pls use it.

Menu item "About" needs the name "About..."

because it shows the dialog.

Term "code page"

"code page" is encoding but usually for 1-byte encodings. term "encoding" is more wide: it is codepages + utf8 + utf16 + utf32. better use "encoding".

new version don't show any files/dirs in the Open dialog

after updating via 'snap install --edge multitextor', I got empty file list in Open dialog!
I tried * and *.* masks. still empty.
I call dialog by F3.