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| author | pommicket <pommicket@gmail.com> | 2022-12-30 22:54:31 -0500 |
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| committer | pommicket <pommicket@gmail.com> | 2022-12-30 22:54:31 -0500 |
| commit | 74ca500fcad9f6f1ee2d43498b92beee92112fb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 364404844a07d9ffc67469754156f6405c71d335 /README.md | |
| parent | 37275ad25635624161c3b51bc81cbd431a200e0c (diff) | |
better readme, etc
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@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ sudo apt install universal-ctags ## Why? There are a lot of text editors out there. ted doesn't do anything new. -I made ted because I wanted a text editor that starts up practically instantaneously, -and performs well on reasonably-sized files. +Here are some benefits of ted: + +- Starts up immediately. +- Doesn't lag for reasonably-sized files. +- VERY small - a full ted installation is < 5 MB. + ted isn't incredibly complicated, but it does have some nice features you might not find in other editors. @@ -33,9 +37,9 @@ in other editors. - Find and replace (with regular expressions!) - Run build command, go to errors - Run any shell command +- Autocomplete - Go to definition - Go to line number -- Autocomplete - Indent/dedent selection, comment/uncomment selection ## Getting started with ted @@ -208,11 +212,12 @@ To install `ted` from source on Linux, you will also need: - A C compiler - The SDL2 development libraries - cmake (for PCRE2) +- imagemagick convert (for creating the .deb installer) These can be installed on Ubuntu/Debian with: ```bash -sudo apt install clang libsdl2-dev cmake +sudo apt install clang libsdl2-dev cmake imagemagick ``` Then run `make -j4 release` to build or `sudo make install -j4` to build and install. |