vim

A teminal text editor written in C similar to vim.

Features

• Auto-indenting C code
• Undo
• Find & replace
• Highlighting brackets
• Visual text selection & copy/cut/paste
• Editting large files
• Comparing files (similar to diff)
• Directory tree listing

Usage Guide

• 3 modes: NORMAL, INSERT, and VISUAL
• Press i to switch to INSERT from NORMAL, and esc to switch back.
• Press v to switch to VISUAL from NORMAL, and esc to switch back.
• Press d in VISUAL mode to cut selected text.
• Press y in VISUAL mode to copy selected text.
• Press p in NORMAL mode to paste.
• Press u in NORMAL mode to undo.
• Press = in NORMAL mode to auto-indent C code.
• Press / in NORMAL mode and enter phrase to search for.
• Press n to go to the next search match or any other key to quit search mode.
• Press : in NORMAL mode to enter commands.

Commands

NOTE: This editor is designed to edit files inside a workspace directory named root in the current working directory, with a path similar to absolute paths but starting from root. For example, if you want to open a file with the relative path root/mydir/sample.txt, you must use the path /root/mydir/sample.txt as argument to the commands below.

NOTE: Use double quotes with any argument that has spaces in it. (See examples)

• :exit to exit
• :open <path> to open a file
• :save to save the current file
• :saveas <path> to save as a different name
• :create --file <path> to create an empty file
• :cat --file <path> to copy the content of the file into the editor buffer in an untitled file
• :compare <path1> <path2> to compare two files (similar to diff)
• :undo to undo (same us pressing u)
• :auto-indent to auto-indent (same as pressing =)
• :tree <depth> to show a directory tree listing of the workspace (root) folder with custom depth (use :tree -1 for unlimited depth)
• :replace --old <old> --new <new> [-all | -at <occurrence#>] to replace all or a specific occurrence of something

Examples

• :open /root/myproject/sample.c
• :replace --old "this is a sentence" --new "hello world" -all
• cat --file "/root/some dir with spaces/test.txt"