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Clean Simple Windows Text Editor

IDE-style typing-tech. without any dependencies. Written in C. includes high performance text engine.

• Optimised for practical editing of text files.
• quick open/save/close cycles
• One source file (main.c)
• Not an IDE/markdown/heavy-code-editor.

Running

1. Run text.exe (Optional: pass a file path as an argument to open it directly.)

Building

Is Windows-only (Due to win32 API).

Usage (aka IDE-style text-fetures)

1) line copy/cut behavior

If nothing is selected:

• Ctrl+C copies the current line.
• Ctrl+X cuts the current line.
• Ctrl+V pasting the new here.

2) Word-level movement and deletion

• Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right: move by words.
• Ctrl+Backspace: delete previous word chunk.
• Ctrl+Delete: delete next word chunk.

3) 2D Box (and column) select

• Alt+Shift+Arrow Keys expands a rectangular selection.
• Typing/paste/delete applies across the selected column block.

4) Move lines up/down

• Alt+Up / Alt+Down swaps the current line with the one above/below.

5) Find Text

• Ctrl+F opens find (or uses selected text as the query).
• Return finds next match.

6) - Undo/redo tracks grouped edits.

7) Zoom / readability controls

• Ctrl++ increase font size
• Ctrl+- decrease font size
• Ctrl+0 reset font size
• Ctrl+MouseWheel also adjusts font size

8) Large file handling

• Line indexing is discovered lazily and doesn't hold up file loading, file measurement is completed afterwards in timed slices for 'instant loading' of large files.
• Text engine implements basic rope string mechanics, allowing near unlimited editing anywhere without UI stalls even in very large files. (internally a unique string backing store is used to implement reference counting and careful pointer offfsets and reindexing avoid work)

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Ctrl+O: Open file
• Ctrl+S: Save file
• Ctrl+F: Find
• Ctrl+Z: Undo
• Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z: Redo
• Ctrl+A: Select all
• Ctrl+C: Copy selection (or current line if no selection)
• Ctrl+X: Cut selection (or current line if no selection)
• Ctrl+V: Paste
• Alt+Up / Alt+Down: Move current line
• Shift+Esc: Immediate exit (no save)
• Alt+Shift+Arrows: Box selection
• Esc: Close find or exit editor
• Ctrl+Shift+D ask codex to run this text file (allowing you to treat text.exe kind of like an IDE for tasks in english).

Known Limits

• Single-document window.
• Windows-only implementation.
• syntax highlighting stripped out and plugins disabled.
• written over ~2 days in ~100 commitsl; temper expectations.