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 (including 24-bit RGB)
• Customizable key bindings
• Command language with auto-completion
• Unicode 15 compatible text rendering
• Support for all xterm key combos (including modifyOtherKeys)
• Support for kitty's keyboard protocol
• Support for terminal synchronized updates (to eliminate screen tearing)
• Support for multiple encodings (using iconv)
• Jump to definition (using ctags)
• Jump to compiler error
• Copy to system clipboard (using OSC 52, which works over SSH)
• EditorConfig support
• Minimal dependencies (just libc on most systems)
• Portable (to any POSIX 2008 operating system)
• Fast startup (~10ms)

Screenshot

Installing

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

Building

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

• GCC 4.8+ or Clang
• GNU Make 4.0+
• 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-1.11.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf dte-1.11.1.tar.gz
cd dte-1.11.1

...and compile and install:

make && sudo make install

Note to macOS users: macOS still ships with GNU Make 3.81, so you'll likely have to install a more recent version with brew and then use gmake in place of make. For example:

brew install make
gmake && sudo gmake 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.

Source Code

The primary git repository and issue tracker is hosted at https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte.

The project is also on various other code hosting sites, but these are only secondary mirrors and may occasionally lag behind GitLab by a few hours.