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# ted

A text editor.

**ted is still very new, and there are almost certainly bugs. There are also definitely important features missing. I don't recommend using this as your main text editor yet.**

<img src="ted.png">

To install `ted` on Linux, you will need:

- A C compiler
- SDL2
- The GL development libraries

These can be installed on Ubuntu/Debian with:

```
sudo apt install gcc libsdl2-dev libgl-dev
```

Then run

```
wget https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre2-10.36.zip
sudo make install -j4
```

There is no nice way of installing on Windows yet.

## Why?

There are a lot of text editors out there. ted doesn't do anything new.
But in the modern world of text editors running browsers internally, it can be nice to have
a simple editor that starts up practically instantaneously, and performs well on reasonably-sized files.

## Supported features (more coming soon)

- Multiple tabs, each with a different file
- Auto-indent
- Customization of (pretty much) all colours and keyboard commands.
- Syntax highlighting for C, C++, Rust, and Python.

## Building from source

On Linux, run `make`.

On Windows, you will need the SDL2 VC development libraries: https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php  
Copy SDL2-2.x.y into the ted directory, and rename it to SDL2. Also copy SDL2\lib\x64\SDL2.dll
to the ted directory.  
You will also need PCRE2. Download it here: https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre2-10.36.zip,
unzip it, and put pcre2-10.36 in the same folder as ted.

Then run `make.bat`.

## Version history

<table>
<tr><th>Version</th> <th>Description</th> <th>Date</th></tr>
<tr><td>0.0</td> <td>Very basic editor</td> <td>2021 Jan 31</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1</td> <td>Syntax highlighting</td> <td>2021 Feb 3</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.2</td> <td>Line numbers, check if file changed by another program</td> <td>2021 Feb 5</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3</td> <td>Find+replace, highlight matching parentheses, indent/dedent selection</td> <td>2021 Feb 11</td></tr>
</table>

## License

ted is in the public domain (see `LICENSE.txt`).

## Reporting bugs

You can report a bug by sending an email to `pommicket at pommicket.com`.