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:

OS	Install command
Debian	`apt-get install dte`
Ubuntu	`apt-get install dte`
Arch Linux (AUR)	`$AUR_HELPER -S dte`
Void Linux	`xbps-install -S dte`
Slackware (SlackBuilds)	See: SlackBuild Usage HOWTO
FreeBSD	`pkg install dte`
DragonFly BSD (DPorts)	`pkg install dte`
OpenBSD	`pkg_add dte`
NetBSD (pkgsrc)	`pkg_add dte`
macOS (Homebrew)	`brew tap yumitsu/dte && brew install dte`
Android (Termux)	`pkg install dte`

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.