Terminal-Based-Text-Editor

A Terminal-Based Text Editor (Similar to Vim)

Environment

Runing on JDK-11

depends Java Native Access to call native methods

Features

• Open given file
• Vertical & Horizontal scrolling
• Search through the whole file
• Support Windows/MacOS/Linux terminal

Run

Windows Terminal test passed, MacOS and Linux haven't been tested yet

# go to the script path
cd <filepath>
# run editor
java -cp jna-5.13.0.jar Viewer.java <fileToOpen>

Hotkeys

Ctrl + Q to exit editor

Ctrl + F to enter search mode

Ctrl + S to save the file

ESC or ENTER to exit search mode (ESC should be pressed twice)

Thanks

Thanks Marco Behler for offering free guide videos