Yocto

A simple, compact and fast text editor using ncurses and a gap buffer, written in C++, in ~1.2k lines of code. More information is available on the wiki.

Usage

make build
sudo make install

Or use the user-friendly dialog utility wizard.sh which also supports configuring yocto

Keybindings

Save: Ctrl-S
Exit: Ctrl-X
Go to start of line: Ctrl-A
Go to end of line: Ctrl-E
Open other file Alt-R
Calculate x offset (for UTF-8): Alt-U
Enter built-in terminal: Alt-C
Show info: Alt-I (also command stats in built-in terminal)

How fast is it?

Yocto is several times faster than any other text editor at reading files and other operations. See the benchmarks for more.

About the name

Yocto is the SI (metric) prefix for 10^-24. Since this text editor is tiny, yocto is a suitable name.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.