dte

dte is a small and easy to use console text editor.

Features

• Multiple buffers/tabs
• Unlimited undo/redo
• Search and replace
• Syntax highlighting
• Customizable color schemes
• Customizable key bindings
• Command language with auto-completion
• 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.

Online documentation is also available at https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/.

Testing

dte is tested on the following platforms:

• Debian (CI)
• CentOS (CI)
• Alpine Linux (CI)
• Ubuntu (CI)
• Mac OS X (CI)
• OpenBSD (occasional, manual testing)
• FreeBSD (occasional, manual testing)

Other POSIX 2008 compatible platforms should also work, but may require build system fixes. Bug reports and/or pull requests are welcome.

Packaging

The following optional build variables may be useful when packaging dte:

• prefix: Top-level installation prefix (defaults to /usr/local).
• bindir: Installation prefix for program binary (defaults to $prefix/bin).
• mandir: Installation prefix for manual pages (defaults to $prefix/share/man).
• DESTDIR: Standard variable used for staged installs.
• V=1: Enable verbose build output.
• WERROR=1: Turn all compiler warnings into errors. May be useful for running automated tests.
• TERMINFO_DISABLE=1: Use built-in terminal support, instead of linking to the system terminfo/curses library. This makes it much easier to build a portable, statically linked binary. The built-in terminal support currently works with tmux, screen, st, rxvt, xterm (and many other xterm-compatible terminals) and falls back to pure ANSI mode for other terminals.

Example usage:

make V=1
make install V=1 prefix=/usr DESTDIR=PKG

License

Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Craig Barnes.
Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Timo Hirvonen.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License version 2 for more details.