antirez/kilo
Kilo
Kilo is a small-scale text editor implemented in C to demonstrate low-level systems programming. It provides a command line interface for modifying and saving text files directly within a terminal.
The editor includes built-in string search and navigation capabilities to locate text within a file. It also applies colors to source code based on language patterns to provide syntax highlighting.
Features
- Terminal Text Editors - Implements a minimal text editor that runs entirely within a terminal interface for modifying and saving files.
- Terminal Escape Sequences - Manipulates cursor position and text colors by sending standard VT100 escape sequences to the terminal.
- Terminal Mode Managers - Configures the terminal to disable line buffering and echo for direct character input control.
- Text Editors - Provides a general-purpose plain text and source code editor with search capabilities.
- Terminal Development Environments - Provides a lightweight, terminal-based environment for basic code editing and text manipulation.
- C - Demonstrates low-level systems programming through a text editor implementation written in C.
- Text Search - Includes pattern-based text matching to locate specific strings and navigate through open files.
- Command Line Navigation - Provides capabilities to locate specific strings within a file for rapid navigation.
- Syntax Highlighters - Implements syntax coloring to make programming languages easier to read and navigate.
- Syntax Highlighting - Applies colors to source code based on language patterns to enhance readability.
- Terminal Syntax Highlighters - Applies color themes to source code within the terminal environment to improve readability.
- Differential Screen Updates - Updates the terminal display by calculating dirty regions to minimize output and reduce flickering.
- Text Line Buffers - Implements a dynamic row buffer using heap-allocated strings to manage variable line lengths in the text file.
- Linear String Scanning - Uses linear character array scanning to implement core text search and syntax highlighting logic.
- Static Memory Allocations - Uses fixed-size buffers for input processing and UI elements to ensure a predictable memory footprint.
- Text Editors - Minimal text editor in 1000 lines of C.
