Everybody writes a screen editor. It's easy to do and makes them feel important.
- Rob Pike

You have heard of micro, nano, and pico, so now it is time for femto.

femto is a lightweight modal terminal-based text editor. It is based on ncurses with vim-like keybindings.

• Vim-like keybindings
• Normal, Visual, and Insert modes
• Basic Markdown syntax highlighting
• Common editor features such as undo/redo, line numbers, scrolling, …
• Fast find all, find and replace

• The only dependency is ncurses.

sudo pacman -S ncurses

sudo dnf install ncurses-devel

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

• Clone, compile, and run.

git clone https://github.com/Elkhdiwy/Femto.git
cd Femto
mkdir obj
make
./femto

• Enjoy.

• cpp syntax highlighting
• support regex
• string automata

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