dte text editor
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
- Customizable key bindings
- Support for all xterm Ctrl/Alt/Shift key codes
- Command language with auto-completion
- Unicode 13 compatible text rendering
- Support for multiple encodings (using iconv)
- Jump to definition (using ctags)
- Jump to compiler error
- EditorConfig support
Screenshot
Installing
dte can be installed via package manager on the following platforms:
| OS | Install command |
|---|---|
| Debian Testing | 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 |
| OS X (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:
...then download and unpack the latest release tarball:
curl -LO https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dist/dte/dte-1.9.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf dte-1.9.1.tar.gz
cd dte-1.9.1...and compile and install:
make && sudo make installDocumentation
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.