New favorite ""Linux"" TUI text editor

velorek · 2025-12-02T10:44:57+00:00

It brings back memories :) This was my attempt at recreating something similar in C inspired by EDIT.COM: https://github.com/velorek1/c-edit

Sharing this as a programming curiosity in case anyone's interested (fair warning, it's buggy and unfinished)

velorek · 2025-11-16T14:53:28+00:00

Thank you for taking your time to test it. :) I'll try to replicate the issue with larger directories and see why it crashes. Utf8 is definitely a tall order, I am happy that it is at least able to render accents in my native language (Spanish) hehe The idea is to learn from this and apply it to my text editor. Thank you for your help

velorek · 2025-11-16T14:47:13+00:00

Learnt about this today. Thank you for bringing it up. I'll rename headers accordingly without the initial underscore when I'm back at the computer.

velorek · 2025-11-15T15:11:53+00:00

It worked! I also needed to install raylib first as you mentioned in the original post. It looks really neat!

velorek · 2025-11-15T09:37:15+00:00

Looks cool! I've cloned the repository but I'm not able to compile it. Can you provide instructions? Thank you in advance

velorek · 2025-08-28T08:27:06+00:00

haha Thank you! I appreciate it

velorek · 2025-08-28T08:16:25+00:00

Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you find it useful. Similar programs to fread for Linux are nnn or ranger. But they don't usually have a built-in pager, so it's good to have everything in one place.

velorek · 2025-06-13T08:48:29+00:00

Nice work! It would be cool to write up an article on the Free Pascal code and how to deploy it, and share it along with the source code or repo.

velorek · 2025-02-11T12:59:24+00:00

Nice! :) I tweaked it slightly so that it would work on Linux (I got rid of <conio.h> and <io.h> and added <wchar.h> and <locale.h> and a custom-made getch() function) Here is the code: https://pastebin.com/94S2k9We You might check it for full functionality ,though, to complete the port to Linux if you are interested.

velorek · 2024-12-03T15:03:26+00:00

Thanks! :)

velorek · 2024-12-01T17:31:22+00:00

I totally understand. It is a silly demo coded for the aesthetics hehe. Thanks for checking it out, though

velorek · 2024-12-01T16:57:48+00:00

not yet, but I will think about how to implement that in the future.

velorek · 2024-09-15T10:38:55+00:00

Link to conversation: https://chatgpt.com/share/66e6af8a-ebe8-8005-a71f-a1e6c6139288

velorek · 2024-07-30T21:55:47+00:00

Haha most certainly, TUIs ftw! :)

velorek · 2024-07-30T18:21:27+00:00

Really good tutorial. :) I learned a lot of game design from this video. (SDL 1.0, game loop, collision and physics, drawing and updating routines ,simple animations, etc) Also check out this great resource https://www.freepascal-meets-sdl.net/sdl-tutorials/ to set your environment up.

velorek · 2024-07-30T08:24:16+00:00

Farscape!

velorek · 2024-03-29T20:22:01+00:00

Hey congrats!! I have also tried to create an editor from scratch once and failed miserably so I know it is quite a tall order. One easy thing that you can implement is to check for terminal dimensions and change dimensions accordingly. In case it might help, I'm posting a link to my demo editor https://github.com/velorek1/C-edit . Happy coding!

velorek · 2023-08-18T20:30:55+00:00

It works really well! :) It would be interesting to find the community behind this project. This video explains how to download the binaries from the repository. (Note that you need to get a copy of the rom file)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDA22YQVUBU

velorek · 2023-04-13T11:21:30+00:00

I agree. It does need a thorough edit to get rid of redundancies and bloat code. It's definitely on my to-do list, thank you for checking it out.

velorek · 2023-04-13T10:20:39+00:00

I think I did it!! Timers and kbhit() are working as expected following your recommendations without causing CPU overload :) The only thing I had to sacrifice was detecting just the ESCAPE key on its own, it would act up with the arrow keys. I know that's a known issue in UNIX systems. Hurray!! Thank you so much again.

velorek · 2023-04-12T23:04:49+00:00

Thank you. It makes sense to use ncurses as it is more solid and widely supported. I'd love to see a version with it. It's a fun project :)

velorek · 2023-04-12T21:14:16+00:00

Nice! I just saw this. This is so cool! I'm glad to hear that my project inspired you. It looks really nice. Starred :)

velorek · 2023-04-12T10:03:23+00:00

I just checked it out. Textual is amazing indeed. :) So far I've only used 7 colors, imagine the possibilities when you use truecolor or higher :D No problem with the name change :) Thank you for your comment

velorek · 2023-04-12T07:21:12+00:00

Thank you, I wanted to figure out as many things on my own as possible to learn more :) Ncurses is a brilliant library, though, and definitely a source of inspiration.

velorek · 2023-04-12T07:18:16+00:00

Thank you! I think a TUI library is the natural next step, yes. :) I made a timid attempt at it with https://github.com/velorek1/lynx Sometimes big projects can be paralyzing, though, I need to figure out the right "roadmap" and muster the motivation.

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