Mag

Mag is a text editor. It is designed to be fast and configurable. Users of Mag are encouraged to edit the source code of the editor to customize it to fit their usages. Mag supports many programming languages, including C, C++, CMake, Go, HTML, CSS, JS, Markdown, and Shell / Bash.

Tutorials are provided in the tutorial directory.

Mag is licensed under GPL3. If you wish to purchase a different license, email czipperz AT gmail DOT com.

Builtin features

• Graphical and console rendering.
• Multiple cursors
  • Intuitively integrated with search and syntax highlighting functionality.
• Syntax highlighting is easily customizable.
• File name completion (Control-P equivalent).
• Built in support for ag, clang-format, man, gtags, ctags, and other external programs.
• Automatically updates files when edited externally.
• Animated scrolling even over large distances.
• Multi threaded architecture -- syntax highlighting and external programs are ran on a background thread to prevent stalls.
• Easy to add new commands and visual enhancements.

Customizing

The custom folder can be customized to fit your needs. In particular config.cpp's create_key_map() has all bindings for normal operation.

Building & installation

See INSTALL.md for instructions on how to build and install Mag.

Debugging

Mag's SDL2 interface and unit tests can be debugged via GDB trivially.

Mag's NCurses interface can be debugged using the provided debug-ncurses.sh script. See that file for more documentation.

Optimization

See OPTIMIZE.md for instructions on how to build Mag.