Cross platform console mode text editor.
This project is mostly recreated version of my old text editor.
- Editor 2.0.0-beta version.
- 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.
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
- 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)
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Install CMake 3.15 or higher
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Install g++-9 or clang or MSVC
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Run CMake: cmake -B _build -S .
or cmakegen.bat
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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
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Get editor in Linux _build/bin/multitextor or in Windows _build/bin/Debug|Release/multitextor.exe
Snap packet link:
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Install: snap install --edge --devmode multitextor
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Update: snap refresh --edge --devmode multitextor
Zip archive link: