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kaa - console text editor

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Kaa - console text editor

Kaa is a small and easy text editor for console environment.

!DANGER!

Kaa is still in the very early stage of development. Don't use kaa for other purpose than evaluation.

Contents

Requirements

  • Python 3.3 or later

  • Headers and librares for ncurses. Consult documentation of your platform for detail. With Debian/Ubuntu, you can install ncurses library with

    $ sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev

  • (optional) Cython

Installation

  1. Get source from github

    $ git clone git@github.com:atsuoishimoto/kaa.git

  2. Install kaa

    $ cd kaa
$ python setup.py install

Command line options

To start kaa, type

$ kaa [FILE]...

Usage

Using kaa is intuitive. Typing alphabet keys will update file as you expected. Functional keys like arrow or delete keys also works.

Using menu

To display menu, type F1 key. Each items in the menu has one underlined character. Typing the underlined character extecutes the menu item.

To hide menu, type escape key.

File menu

Open
Open existing file.
Save
Save current file.
Save As
Save current file as new file.
Close
Close current frame.
Quit
Terminate kaa.

Edit menu

Cut
Cut selected text.
Copy
Copy selected text.
Paste
Paste from clipboard.
Undo
Undo last modification.
Redo
Redo last undo.

Macro menu

Start record
Start macro recording.
End record
End macro recording.
Run macro
Run last macro.

Window menu

Frame list
Show list of frame windows. Use left/right arrow key to change active frame.
Split vert
Split current window vertically.
Split horz
Split current window horizontally.
Move separator
Move window separator. Use left/right arrow key to move separator.
Next window
Activate next window.
Join window
Join splitted window.
Switch file
Switch content of active window.

Key bindings

Arrow keys
Move cursor.
Shift+arrow keys
Select text.
Control+left/right arrow keys
Move cursor to next/prev word boundary.
Backspace
Delete the character to the left.
Delete
Delete the character at the cursor.
Control+z
Undo last change.
Control+r
Redo last undoi.
F6
Toggle macro recording on/off.
F5
Run macro.
Control+S
Search text.
Alt+S
Replace text.
Control+b|Control+f|Control+p|Control+n
Move cursor to left|right|up|down.
Alt+b|Alt+f
Move cursor to next/prev word boundary.