Multitextor

Cross platform console mode text editor.

This project is mostly recreated version of my old text editor.

In progress

Editor 2.0.0-beta version.

Key features

Simple user friendly interface same in different environments (with menu and dialog)
Mouse and keyboard cursor movement and selection
Multi-window
Split view mode with 2 panels
Clear working with different text code pages
Different select modes
Working with macros
Big files editing over 4 GBytes (with small memory using)
Deep Undo/Redo
Customizable key commands and some interface parameters
Customizable syntax highlighting
Editor session saving/restoring
Searching in on disk files

Will be implemented in the next versions:

Backup files
Random access bookmarks
Build-in file comparing mode

Editor screenshot.

Tested on

Linux/Windows/OSX/FreeBSD

Windows 11 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 / 2019 / 2017
Windows 10 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 / 2017
Windows 7 - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017
Linux Ubuntu 18.04 - gcc version 9.3.0
Linux Ubuntu 20.04 - gcc version 9.3.0
Armbian Focal OrangePI 4

For building it needs a compiler with C++ 0x17 full support.

Minimal requirement: gcc 8.0 or MSVS 2017

Need to install packages in Linux

sudo apt-get install -y libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libgpm-dev
sudo apt-get install -y gpm (only for mouse supporting in console)

How to build

Install CMake 3.15 or higher
Install g++-9 or clang or MSVC
Run CMake: cmake -B _build -S .

or cmakegen.bat
Build editor
- in Linux run: build.sh
- in Windows try to run: msbuild /p:Configuration=Release Multitextor.sln
- or open solution _build/Multitextor.sln with MSVC
Get editor in Linux _build/bin/multitextor or in Windows _build/bin/Debug|Release/multitextor.exe

Linux: get binaries packet from snap

Snap packet link:

Install: snap install --edge --devmode multitextor
Update: snap refresh --edge --devmode multitextor

Windows: get zip archive from AppVeyor CI artifacts

Zip archive link: