Tachibana General Labs

Peter and Dorcas picture — 2021-04-24 — Peter and Dorcas

Dorcas is a Terminal Text Editor written in C

Dorcas is a terminal text editor written in C. It is based on the Kilo text editor and the excellent snaptoken kilo tutorial series. Dorcas has syntax highlighting capabilities for the C, C++, and LAIN programming languages.

—Dorcas editing itself. Dorcas is able to syntax highlight .c files.

—Running Dorcas without specifying a file to open.

Ideas for Future Work

Fix some of the bugs from this PR: https://github.com/antirez/kilo/pull/78<\li>
Display line numbers to the left of each line of the file.
Soft indent: Have the Tab key insert spaces instead of \t. (Have Backspace remove a Tab key’s worth of spaces as well?).
Auto indent new lines to the same level as the previous line.
Hard-wrap lines: Insert a newline in the text when the user is about to type past the end of the screen without splitting a word if possible.
Soft-wrap lines: When a line is longer than the screen width, use multiple lines on the screen to display it instead of horizontal scrolling.
Use the ncurses library instead of my custom code
Copy and paste functionality.
Save some of the settings in a config file.
Allow having multiple files open at once, and have some way of switching between them.

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Last update on 2021-06-18, edited 3 times. +0/0fh orphan