dte

dte is 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
• Command language with auto-completion
• Unicode 11 compatible text rendering
• Support for multiple encodings (using iconv)
• Jump to definition (using ctags)
• Jump to compiler error

Screenshot

Requirements

• GCC or Clang
• GNU Make 3.81+
• terminfo library (may be provided by ncurses, depending on OS)
• iconv library (may be included in libc, depending on OS)
• POSIX-compatible sh and awk (compile-time only)

Installation

To build dte from source, first install the requirements listed above, then use the following commands:

curl -LO https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dist/dte/dte-1.7.tar.gz
tar -xzf dte-1.7.tar.gz
cd dte-1.7
make -j8 && 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.

Default Key Bindings

Editor

Alt+x

Enter command mode (see dterc for available commands)

Ctrl+q

Quit editor (use quit -f in command mode to quit with unsaved buffers)

Alt+z

Suspend editor (resume by running fg in the shell)

Buffer

Ctrl+n, Ctrl+t

Open new, empty buffer

Ctrl+o

Open file (prompt)

Ctrl+s

Save current buffer

Ctrl+w

Close current buffer

Alt+1, Alt+2 ... Alt+9

Switch to buffer 1 (or 2, 3, 4, etc.)

Alt+0

Switch to last buffer

Alt+,

Switch to previous buffer

Alt+.

Switch to next buffer

Navigation

Alt+b

Move cursor to beginning of file

Alt+e

Move cursor to end of file

Ctrl+l

Go to line (prompt)

Ctrl+f, Alt+/

Find text (prompt)

Ctrl+g, F3

Find next

F4

Find previous

Alt+f

Find next occurence of word under cursor

Alt+Shift+f

Find previous occurence of word under cursor

Editing

Alt+s

Begin selecting characters

Alt+l

Begin selecting whole lines

Alt+u, Esc

Stop selecting

Ctrl+c

Copy selection (or line)

Ctrl+x

Cut selection (or line)

Ctrl+v

Paste previously copied or cut text

Ctrl+z

Undo last action

Ctrl+y

Redo last undone action

Alt+j

Wrap paragraph under the cursor to 72 columns

Alt+t

Insert a tab character (useful when using the expand-tab option)

Alt+-

Decrease indent level of selection (or line)

Alt+=

Increase indent level of selection (or line)