Kilo Editor

Overview

A simple text editor written in C++ for educational purposes. It is a pseudo-follow-along of the snaptoken's kilo tutorial from Paige Ruten based on antirez's kilo editor.

Both the tutorial, and the original kilo editor is written in pure C with no dependencies. For my own interest, this version of the kilo editor is completely written in modern C++(C++20) with minimal dependencies.

Features

• Basic Text Editing
• Syntax Highlighting
• Incremental Searching
• Using my own implementation of string container str instead of <string> from the STL:
  • implementation of <string> member functions such as:
    • replace
    • erase
    • find
    • rfind
    • compare
    • insert
    • append
    • push_back
    • pop_back
  • iterator support for STL algorithms
• Heavy use of modern C++ paradigms:
  • RAII
  • move-semantic
  • template programming
  • lambda functions
  • copy-and-swap idiom
  • compile-time constant expressions

Dependencies

• Minimal use of The C++ Standard Library: for functions from headers such as <algorithm>, <format> etc.

Prerequisites

• C++ compiler (C++11 or later)
• make

Building

make

Running

Run the compiled executable: ./bin/kilo

Usage

• Text Editing: Open the editor and start typing. Use arrow keys to navigate, and press Ctrl-Q to quit.
• Searching: Press Ctrl-F to initiate a search. Enter the desired word, and use the arrow keys (UP and DOWN) to cycle through search results.