Multitextor

Cross platform console mode text editor.

This project is mostly recreated version of my old text editor.

In progress

• Editor 2.0.0-beta version.

Key features

• Simple user friendly interface same in different environments (with menu and dialog)
• Mouse and keyboard cursor movement and selection
• Multi-window
• Split view mode with 2 panels
• Clear working with different text code pages
• Different select modes
• Working with macros
• Big files editing over 4 GBytes (with small memory using)
• Deep Undo/Redo
• Customizable key commands and some interface parameters
• Customizable syntax highlighting
• Editor session saving/restoring
• Searching in on disk files

Will be implemented in the next versions:

• Backup files
• Random access bookmarks
• Build-in file comparing mode

Editor screenshot.

Tested on

Linux/Windows/OSX/FreeBSD

• Windows 11 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 / 2019 / 2017
• Windows 10 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 / 2017
• Windows 7 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017
• Linux Ubuntu 18.04 - gcc version 9.3.0
• Linux Ubuntu 20.04 - gcc version 9.3.0
• Armbian Focal OrangePI 4

For building it needs a compiler with C++ 0x17 full support.

Minimal requirement: gcc 8.0 or MSVS 2017

Need to install packages in Linux

• sudo apt-get install -y libncurses5-dev
• sudo apt-get install -y libgpm-dev
• sudo apt-get install -y gpm (only for mouse supporting in console)

How to build

• Install CMake 3.15 or higher

• Install g++-9 or clang or MSVC

• Run CMake: cmake -B _build -S .

  or cmakegen.bat

• Build editor

  • in Linux run: build.sh
  • in Windows try to run: msbuild /p:Configuration=Release Multitextor.sln
  • or open solution _build/Multitextor.sln with MSVC

• Get editor in Linux _build/bin/multitextor or in Windows _build/bin/Debug|Release/multitextor.exe

Linux: get binaries packet from snap

Snap packet link:

• Install: snap install --edge --devmode multitextor

• Update: snap refresh --edge --devmode multitextor

Windows: get zip archive from AppVeyor CI artifacts

Zip archive link: