ZTE

Zesterer's Text Editor

What

ZTE is a personal project. I grew frustrated with existing text editors and wanted something that worked exactly as I liked. This is not designed to be a general-purpose text editor with lots of fancy bells and whistles - it's supposed to work as I want it to and no more besides.

Features

• Multi-pane editor
• Clipboard support
• Buffers are independent of editors
• Buffer switching and opening
• Automatic indentation
• Syntax highlighting for
  • .rs
  • .toml
  • .glsl
  • .ron
  • .md
  • .log
  • .tao

Keybindings

Text manipulation

Within an editor pane, 'standard' non-modal keybindings apply:

• Arrow keys + page up + page down to move around the text

• Ctrl + arrow keys to move around the text word-wise

• Shift + arrow keys to select characters

• Shift + ctrl + arrow keys to select words

• Ctrl + X: Cut

• Ctrl + C: Copy

• Ctrl + V: Paste

• Ctrl + D: Duplicate line or selection

The DE clipboard will be used where possible.

Editor pane manipulation

• Alt + W/A/S/D: Switch to the next editor pane in the given direction
• Alt + Shift + W/A/S/D: Create a new editor pane in the given direction
• Alt + Q: Close the current editor pane

Buffer manipulation

• Ctrl + O: Open a file in a new buffer (or reuse an existing buffer if the file is already open)

• Ctrl + S: Save the current buffer

• Ctrl + N: Create a new buffer (currently not useful until saving buffers with new names is implemented, use Ctrl + O instead to create a new file)

• Ctrl + B: Switch the current editor pane between recent buffers

• Ctrl + Q: Close the current buffer (unsaved data will be lost)

Misc

• Esc: Cancel the current action (or close the editor)