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0.0.2	Oct 16, 2021
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ewin

Simple editor for Window(GUI) users.

No need to remember commands

Please refrain from using it as it is currently under development.

It provides basic features as a minimal text editor:

Open/Save text files
Create new text files and empty text buffer on memory
Edit a text (put/delete characters, insert/delete lines, ...)
Support editing UTF-8 characters
Resizing terminal window supported. Screen size is responsible
Key binding support
Mouse support
Mocro support at Javascript
Context menu support
Tab support
Grep support(Utilizes the internal implementation of ripgrep)
Box select・Inseret support
Change detection of another process of file (when saving)
When using WSL, it can be linked with the Windows Clipboard.
File change monitoring.
Color theme(Cursor color is out of scope)
Input completion(word completion)
Symbol display of specific characters (tab, Full-width space, ..)
Window split
File property reference
SideBar FileTreeView

Sample image

grep

Input Ctrl + g
Input search character, search folder, file pattern.
Display screen of grep result.
Enter the Enter key on the 3th line of the grep result screen to open the target file in a new tab. The cursor moves to the character in the search result.

See below for other sample images

https://github.com/thinkingreed/ewin/wiki/Sample-image

Installation

On Ubuntu

... and other Debian-based Linux distributions

Download the latest .deb package from the release page and install it via:

On CentOS

Download the latest .rpm package from the release page and install it via:

rpm -ivh ewin_0.0.0.x86_64.rpm

On Windows

Download the latest .exe package from the release page and install it via:

Usage

CLI

Please see ewin --help for command usage.

File edit

Installing package introduces ew command in your system.

$ ew [file]         # Open files to edit

Output config file

Configuration file output.

$ ew -o, --output-config

The output location of the config file is as follows.

On Linux

$HOME/.config/ewin/

On Windows

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\ewin\

Operation

ewin is a mode-less text editor. Like other famous mode-less text editors such as Nano, Emacs, you can edit text in terminal window using a keyboard. And several keys with Ctrl or Alt modifiers are mapped to various features.

Operations

Mapping	Motion	Key recording
`Ctrl` + `w`	Quit.	―
`Ctrl` + `s`	Save current buffer to file.	―
`F1`	Key binding display at the bottom of the screen.	―
`Ctrl` + `f`	Enter the characters to incremental search.Search target is open file.	―
`Ctrl` + `g`	Grep. Enter the characters you want to search for. The search target is the UTF-8 file of the entered file pattern.	―
	Linux・WSL	―
	Command to use : grep -rHnI search_str --include=search_filenm search_folder
	-r:Subfolder search,-H:File name display,-n:Line number display,-I: Binary file not applicable
	Windows	―
	Command to use : dir -recurse search_folder -Exclude Binary file... \| Select-String search_str
`Shift` + `F1`	Key record start or stop.Recording key operation.	―
`Shift` + `F2`	Execution of the recorded key.	―
`Ctrl` + `o`	Open new file.	―
`Ctrl` + `n`	Create new tab. Another operation is to double-click the header.	―
	In case of Windows, it will not be recognized unless you double-click slowly
`Alt` + `←`・`→`	Switch tab.	―
`Ctrl` + `e`	Specify the character code and reload. Or set the character code line feed code and BOM.	―
`F12`	Mouse capture changes.Used for clipboard access via terminal app	―
	when connecting to a remote terminal	―
`F10`	Display Context menu.	―
`Ctrl` + `space`	Input completion	―

Moving cursor

Mapping	Motion	Key recording
`↑` or `Mouse ScrollUp`	Move cursor up.	target
`↓` or `Mouse ScrollDown`	Move cursor down.	target
`→`	Move cursor right.	target
`←`	Move cursor left.	target
`HOME`	Move cursor to head of line.	target
`END`	Move cursor to end of line.	target
`PAGE DOWN`	Next page.	target
`PAGE UP`	Previous page.	target
`Ctrl` + `HOME`	Move cursor to first of line.	target
`Ctrl` + `END`	Move cursor to last of line.	target
`Ctrl` + `l`	Move cursor to specified line.	―

Edit text

Mapping	Motion	Key recording
`Enter`	Insert new line	target
`BACKSPACE`	Delete character	target
`DELETE`	Delete next character	target
`Tab`	Insert new tab	target
`Ctrl` + `x`	Select range cut.	target
`Ctrl` + `c`	Select range copy.If you want to copy to the clipboard when operating remotely, use F12 to switch the mouse operation.	target
`Ctrl` + `v`	Paste the copied characters.	target
`Ctrl` + `r`	Replace character.	―
`Ctrl` + `z`	Undo.Undo the last edit.	―
`Ctrl` + `y`	Redo.Make the last update again.	―

Select text

Mapping	Motion	Key recording
`Shift` + `↑`	Select from the beginning of the current line and the end of the line above	target
`Shift` + `↓`	Select from the end of the current line and the beginning of the line below	target
`Shift` + `→`	Select the next character.	target
`Shift` + `←`	Select the previous character.	target
`Shift` + `HOME`	Select the head of line.	target
`Shift` + `END`	Select the end of line.	target
`Ctrl` + `a`	Select all.	target
`F3`	Search for characters below.	target
`Shift` + `F3`	Search for above characters below on Winodws	target
`Shift` + `F4`	Search for above characters below on Unix family(※Shift+F3 cannot be read at Crossterm on Unix family)	target
`Mouse Left.Down` + `Drag`	Select a range.	―
`Mouse Double click`	Select a range.Delimiter is `` ! "#$%&()*+-',./:;<=>?@[]^`{	}~ ``
`Mouse Triple click`	Select a line.	―
`Shift` + `F6`	Box(rectangle) Select mode Start or Stop.	―
`Alt` + `↑`	Box(rectangle) Select from the beginning of the current line and the end of the line above	target
`Alt` + `↓`	Box(rectangle) Select from the end of the current line and the beginning of the line below	target
`Alt` + `→`	Box(rectangle) Select the next character.	target
`Alt` + `←`	Box(rectangle) Select the previous character.	target
`Alt` + `HOME`	Box(rectangle) Select the head of line.	target
`Alt` + `END`	Box(rectangle) Select the end of line.	target

Operation restrictions

motion	Mapping	environment	Contents
`Copy`・`Paste`・`Cut`	`Ctrl` + `c`・`v`・`x`	WSL	・If you want to copy it to the clipboard, you need the path to powershell.exe. Try $ PSHOME in a PowerShell terminal
			・There are environmental restrictions on the length of the string.
`Key record`	`Ctrl` + `F1`	WSL	keybindings.command."copy" and "paste" needs to be changed to something other than Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v. Ex)Ctrl+Shift+c, Ctrl+Shift+v

Setting file

When Output config file command is executed, the Setting configuration file is output to the following location, so it can be edited.

On Linux

$HOME/.config/ewin/setting.toml

On Windows

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\ewin\setting.toml

Initial Setting

The initial Settings are as follows.

Initial Setting

Key binding

When Output config file command is executed, the keybind configuration file is output to the following location, so it can be edited.

On Linux

$HOME/.config/ewin/keybind.json5

On Windows

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\ewin\keybind.json5

Initial key bind

The initial key bind settings are as follows.

Initial key bind

Maintenance

Operation / Unexpected error log is output below.

On Linux

/tmp/ewin/

On Windows

%USERPROFILE%AppData\Local\Temp\ewin\

Settings when using via Tera Term

Settings when using via Tera Term is as follows.

Using via Tera Term

Public functions for Javascript macros

Below is a list of published Javascript functions. Built-in v8 engine using rusty_v8.

Public functions for macros

Future Works

Extension by WASM
Auto save file

License

This project is distributed under the MIT License.

Dependencies

~79MB
~1.5M SLoC