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dte

A small and easy to use console text editor.

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Platforms

  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Termux
  • Android
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Portable
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Syntax Highlighting
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Command line interface
  6.  Works Offline
  7.  Dark Mode
  8.  Search and Replace
  9.  Key binding
  10.  Console-based
  11.  Color Palette
  12.  Support for regular expressions
  13.  Tabbed interface

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What is dte?

A small and easy to use console text editor.

Features:

  • Multiple buffers/tabs
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • Regex search and replace
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Customizable color schemes (including 24-bit RGB)
  • Customizable key bindings
  • Command language with auto-completion
  • Unicode 15 compatible text rendering
  • Support for all xterm key combos (including modifyOtherKeys)
  • Support for kitty's keyboard protocol
  • Support for terminal synchronized updates (to eliminate screen tearing)
  • Support for multiple encodings (using iconv)
  • Jump to definition (using ctags)
  • Jump to compiler error
  • Copy to system clipboard (using OSC 52, which works over SSH)
  • EditorConfig support
  • Minimal dependencies (just libc on most systems)
  • Portable (to any POSIX 2008 operating system)
  • Fast startup (~10ms)