An extensible Jansi & Jline based Console Text Editor.
The editor is using Jansi for ansi escape sequence manipulation. It also uses Jline terminals, streams and key maps.
It works as a standalone editor, but it can also be use from jline based applications.
Editor Features
- Scrolling
- Undo / Redo functionality
- Forward & Backward searching and highlighting
- Pluggable content manager, to be able to edit not just files (e.g. blobs, zookeeper znodes, config admin pids etc).
- Color themes
Building
You can download a standalone version of the editor from Maven Central. You can also build the editor from source.
Buidling requires:
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Java 1.6+
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Maven 3
mvn clean install
Running
Once the build or download is done:
> cd jledit/target
> tar -zxvf jledit-0.1.1-bin.tar.gz
> cd jledit-0.1.1
> ./bin/jledit /path/to/myfile
or on Windows:
> cd jledit/target
> unzip jledit-0.1.1-bin.zip
> cd jledit-0.1.1/bin
> jledit.bat /path/to/myfile
Knows Issues & Limitations
- The whole file is loaded in memory.
- Resizing of terminal is not well supported.
- Save will convert all \r characters to \n.
- The base ConsoleEditor implementation needs to be simplified.
- Possible deadlock when shutting closing the editor.