step

Simple Text Editor, Personalized

Build

The only external dependency is ncurses (and panels, which is usually shipped with ncurses).

git clone https://github.com/sultanowskii/step
cd step
make

Install

This command will install the compiled executable to /usr/bin/ (you might want to run it with sudo)

make install

Usage

> ./step
usage: ./step FILENAME
> ./step file.txt

Modes

The idea is very similar to vim. There are:

• Normal (command)
• Insert (the usual text editor experience)
• Visual (selection)

All modes

These keys work in all modes:

Key	Action
←, ↑, →, ↓	Navigation keys

Normal (command) mode

Key	Action
Ctrl+q	Quit
Ctrl+s	Save
u	Undo
r	Redo
g	Goto Beginning of File (BOF)
G	Goto End of File (EOF)
x	Remove one symbol
p	Insert clipboard contents
i	Enter Insert mode
v	Enter Visual mode

Insert mode

Basic text mode.

Key	Action
Ctrl+q / Esc	Exit Insert Mode (= Enter Normal mode)

Visual (select) mode

Key	Action
c	Copy selected to clipboard
x	Cut selected to clipboard
d, DEL, Backspace	Remove selected
Ctrl+q / Esc	Exit Visual Mode (= Enter Normal mode)

Limitations

• ASCII only
• Internal clipboard only (I'm NOT making the real clipboard support - that's one hell of a nightmare)
• Enormously large files aren't handled in any specific way, therefore some operations (as well as opening/saving) might be slow
• As some other TUIs, could work weirdly in small terminal windows - get a bigger one :)

About

My biggest pet project so far - I quite like it.