femto - a tiny text editor

building

gcc femto.c -lncurses -o femto

using

./femto text_file

features

• chorded key combinations
• saves and loads ascii text files
• vertical and horizontal scrolling
• minibuffer showing current file, position in file, status messages, and current command keystrokes

limitations

• does not handle unicode
• does not handle files larger than memory

key combinations (currently hard-coded, and oriented for colemak usage)

• C-k kill-line
• C-w kill-word
• C-l back-word
• C-u forward-word
• C-x c exit
• C-x s save-buffer
• C-n next-page
• C-p prev-page
• C-j insert-newline

what it looks like