A lightweight text editor with minimal dependencies inspired by antirez's kilo.
Gila is currently a work in progress, but feel free to try it out. Simply clone the repo, run make build and run the exported binary with the path to a text file as its first argument. Sample files
are provided under testdata.
- Enable terminal raw mode
- Display welcome screen
- Read and transliterate special keypresses, e.g. arrow keys
- Cursor control
- Load arbitrary text files
- Vertical scrolling
- Horizontal scrolling
- Status bar
- Status message
- Text editing
- Create and save new documents with a custom file name
- Test suite
- Search
- Syntax highlighting
- Word wrap
- User configuration
- Treat space-replaced tabs as a single character for cursor movement
- Performance tuning
- Handle grapheme clusters of > 1 code point