https://github.com/csb6/editor
A custom text editor using the FLTK GUI toolkit
https://github.com/csb6/editor
cpp cpp17 fltk text-editor
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A custom text editor using the FLTK GUI toolkit
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/csb6/editor
- Owner: csb6
- Created: 2019-12-09T01:46:18.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-11-24T05:03:47.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-23T19:44:33.249Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: cpp, cpp17, fltk, text-editor
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 453 KB
- Stars: 9
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Editor
This is a text editor built using FLTK GUI library and C++. It is heavily based on the default
FLTK text editor widget, `Fl_Text_Editor`, which in turn is based on the NEdit
editor. It is designed to be cross-platform, but so far I have only tested builds
on macOS.
The editor itself is pretty bare-bones. Here are some of the features (this list
can also be found in `test.txt`, the default file opened when the program starts):
- Line numbers
- Custom coloring of text and background
- Menus that show keyboard shortcuts
- Support for macOS's menu system (menu is on the taskbar instead of in-window)
- Save, Save As, and Open operations for files
using CMD-S, CMD-Shift-S, and CMD-O
- Emacs-like "Next word" and "Prior word" with
CMD-F and CMD-B
- Basic support for font-loading; right now, the program
is configured to use Monaco, a monospace font on macOS.
- Indication as to when the current buffer has been edited
## Building
To build and install the app, you first must clone the repository, then
install the `fltk` git module.
Building the program should be as simple as running `make`. This will build the FLTK static library if necessary.
**Note:** `fltk` is included as a git submodule in this repo, not as a shared library in the standard system install location (e.g. `/usr/lib`). This makes it
simpler to install and reinstall the `fltk` submodule, and also reduces the chance
that the app will conflict with any other shared libraries/package managers.
I hope that you find this project interesting (and maybe useful)!