zw963/dte

Dexterous Text Editor (forked from tihirvon/dex)

dte

A small and easy to use console text editor.

Features

• Multiple buffers/tabs
• Unlimited undo/redo
• Regex search and replace
• Syntax highlighting
• Customizable color schemes
• Customizable key bindings
• Support for all xterm Ctrl/Alt/Shift key codes
• Command language with auto-completion
• Unicode 13 compatible text rendering
• Support for multiple encodings (using iconv)
• Jump to definition (using ctags)
• Jump to compiler error
• EditorConfig support

Screenshot

Installing

dte can be installed via package manager on the following platforms:

OS	Install command
Debian Testing	apt-get install dte
Ubuntu	apt-get install dte
Arch Linux (AUR)	$AUR_HELPER -S dte
Void Linux	xbps-install -S dte
Slackware (SlackBuilds)	See: SlackBuild Usage HOWTO
FreeBSD	pkg install dte
DragonFly BSD (DPorts)	pkg install dte
OpenBSD	pkg_add dte
NetBSD (pkgsrc)	pkg_add dte
OS X (Homebrew)	brew tap yumitsu/dte && brew install dte
Android (Termux)	pkg install dte

Building

To build from source, first ensure the following dependencies are installed:

• GCC 4.6+ or Clang
• GNU Make 3.81+
• iconv library (usually provided by libc on Linux/FreeBSD)

...then download and unpack the latest release tarball:

curl -LO https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dist/dte/dte-1.10.tar.gz
tar -xzf dte-1.10.tar.gz
cd dte-1.10

...and compile and install:

make && sudo make install

Documentation

After installing, you can access the documentation in man page format via man 1 dte, man 5 dterc and man 5 dte-syntax.

Online documentation is also available at https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/.

Packaging

See docs/packaging.md.

For linux user, you can always try play with the newest version from here.

Limits

At the moment, bindings that include Ctrl must use uppercase letters. e.g. bind C-y 'paste -c' should change to bind C-Y 'paste -c'.

I've been thinking about this problem for a long time, but it's hard to fix without breaking backwards compatibility, It's been this way since the code was forked from dex.

Until I fix the problem, I think dte -K is the most useful way to see how to bind key combinations.

For now, copying and pasting in dte use the primary selection, in the future, I will be adding a new option to the copy and paste commands to allow copying and pasting from the system (X11/Wayland/Mac) clipboard, as did in emacs since 24.1.

License

Copyright (C) 2017-2021 Craig Barnes.
Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Timo Hirvonen.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License version 2 for more details.