te — minimal text editor

A minimal plain-text editor built with Zig and GTK4.

Prerequisites

• Zig >= 0.16.0
• GTK4 development libraries
• pkg-config in PATH

macOS (Homebrew)

brew install zig gtk4

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install zig libgtk-4-dev

Build & Run

zig build run

Or build first, then run separately:

zig build
./zig-out/bin/te

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+N	New tab
Ctrl+O	Open file (new tab)
Ctrl+S	Save file
Ctrl+W	Close current tab
Ctrl+Tab	Next tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab	Previous tab

Architecture

GTK4 headers cannot be translated by Zig 0.16's translate-c (see upstream issue). This project works around the limitation by declaring the ~45 needed GTK4/GLib C functions as extern fn with opaque pointer types — no header translation or @cImport required.