tdryer/editor

Thank you!

hexylena opened this issue · 0 comments

Hey @tdryer, just wanted to say a big thank you for writing this and licensing it such that it can be reused.

I needed a very simple, curses & python text editor that vaguely looks like vim and this was just the ticket. It works fantastically even 7 years later (with only minor changes for python 3) and was very easy to hack on, so, cheers!

The context if you're curious: I'm using https://asciinema.org/ to make automated terminal recordings for training materials, and part of what we're teaching is the specific modifications you need to make to different files. Our training materials include diffs but these are hard to read for students, so I've used your editor to parse the diff, and turn this into a series of keypresses that are sent to your editor, allowing us to have something we can include in our recordings. We'll then include that in the training materials since students struggle to read diffs e.g., https://asciinema.org/a/410411