Build Your Own Text Editor

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  • bee

    (Archived, Incomplete) Text editor written in Bash 3 (by turbo)

  • AAAAH!!!!! [1]

    This useful at least as an example on how to manipulate the tty and use ncurse.

    [1] https://github.com/turbo/bee/blob/master/bee#L277

  • lite

    A lightweight text editor written in Lua

  • https://github.com/rxi/lite

    https://rxi.github.io/lite_an_implementation_overview.html

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  • ewig

    The eternal text editor — Didactic Ersatz Emacs to show immutable data-structures and the single-atom architecture

  • For another approach: I built a didactic text editor to teach "value oriented design" and immutable data-structures in C++:

    https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig

    It's design is covered in these talks:

    - Postmodern immutable data structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q

    - The most valuable values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oBx_NbLghY

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