https://github.com/seem/editor

Minimal terminal text editor written in Python and curses
https://github.com/seem/editor

curses editor python terminal

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Minimal terminal text editor written in Python and curses

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/seem/editor
• Owner: seeM
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-09-06T08:01:05.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-11-29T16:31:43.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-18T07:01:41.060Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: curses, editor, python, terminal
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 62.5 KB
• Stars: 24
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# editor

A minimal terminal text editor written in Python and curses.

![](https://wasimlorgat.com/posts/images/editor.svg)

## Check out the accompanying tutorial

... [How to build a text editor with Python and curses](https://wasimlorgat.com/posts/editor), which walks you through series of fifteen incremental coding problems concluding in a minimal text editor.

The tutorial was featured in [Episode 221 of the PythonBytes podcast](https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/221/pattern-matching-and-accepting-change-in-python-with-brett-cannon) by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken.

## Credits

Many thanks to the following people and projects for sharing their great work, upon which a lot of this was based!

-   Many thanks to Pavel Spirhanzl and Alexandre Pajak for their keen eyes in identifying bugs in early versions.

-   Gary Bernhardt's [Text Editor From Scratch](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/text-editor-from-scratch) screencast.

-   Anthony Sottile's [babi](https://github.com/asottile/babi/).

-   [nano](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/tree/) source.

-   [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) source. In my opinion, the best way to explore the source is through Emacs' built-in help commands.