Jil Text

NOTE: This project is only for study purpose and it's dead. I will not push any update. Sorry!

Yet another text editor developed with C++ and wxWidgets.

Advantages

• Cross platform (Windows, Linux and Mac).
• Intuitive and beautiful interface.
• Low memory usage, super fast.
• GUI based configuration: support both global and file type specific options.
• Extensible indent functions using Lua script.

Disadvantages

• No plugin support.
• No resources, no documentation.

Build Instructions

The build system of Jil Text is based on CMake, with which you can generate Visual Studio solution, XCode project or Unix makefiles.

Linux (Ubuntu)

CMake

$ sudo apt install cmake cmake-qt-gui

The GUI version "cmake-qt-gui" is optional.

C++ Boost Library

$ sudo apt install libboost-dev

wxWidgets

Install with apt:

$ sudo apt install libwxgtk3.0-dev

Or download the source code and build it yourself:

$ ./configure --with-gtk=3 --disable-shared
$ make
$ sudo make install

Generate Makefiles

Suppose the source code is cloned to ~/jil, create a build directory next to it:

$ mkdir ~/jilbuild

Generate Unix makefiles with CMake:

$ cd ~/jilbuild
$ cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/jilbuild/src/app ../jil

Build & Install

Now build it with make:

$ make

Note that CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is set to the directory where the executable file is located. The resource files will also be installed to this directory by:

$ make install

You may want to create a symbolic link in ~/bin to the executable:

$ ln -s ~/jilbuild/src/app/jil ~/bin/jil