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README.md
An editor for plain text.
Not very useful by itself, but it's a fork of lines.love that you can take in other directions besides line drawings, while easily sharing patches between forks.
Designed above all to be easy to modify and give you early warning if your modifications break something.
Invocation
To run from the terminal, pass this directory to LÖVE, optionally with a file path to edit.
Alternatively, turn it into a .love file you can double-click on:
$ zip -r /tmp/text.love *.lua
By default, it reads/writes the file lines.txt in your default
user/home directory (https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.getUserDirectory).
To open a different file, drop it on the app window.
Keyboard shortcuts
While editing text:
ctrl+fto find patterns within a filectrl+cto copy,ctrl+xto cut,ctrl+vto pastectrl+zto undo,ctrl+yto redoctrl+=to zoom in,ctrl+-to zoom out,ctrl+0to reset zoomalt+right/alt+leftto jump to the next/previous word, respectively- mouse drag or
shift+ movement to select text,ctrl+ato select all
Exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact
Known issues
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No support yet for Unicode graphemes spanning multiple codepoints.
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No support yet for right-to-left languages.
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Undo/redo may be sluggish in large files. Large files may grow sluggish in other ways. Works well in all circumstances with files under 50KB.
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If you kill the process, say by force-quitting because things things get sluggish, you can lose data.
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Long wrapping lines can't yet distinguish between the cursor at end of one screen line and start of the next, so clicking the mouse to position the cursor can very occasionally do the wrong thing.
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Can't scroll while selecting text with mouse.
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No scrollbars yet. That stuff is hard.
Mirrors and Forks
This repo is a fork of lines.love at http://akkartik.name/lines.html. Updates to it can be downloaded from the following mirrors:
- https://codeberg.org/akkartik/text.love
- https://repo.or.cz/text.love.git
- https://tildegit.org/akkartik/text.love
- https://git.tilde.institute/akkartik/text.love
- https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/text.love
- https://notabug.org/akkartik/text.love
- https://github.com/akkartik/text.love
- https://pagure.io/text.love
Further forks are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it here.
- https://codeberg.org/akkartik/view.love -- a stripped down version without support for modifying files; useful starting point for some forks.
- https://codeberg.org/akkartik/pong.love -- a fairly minimal example app that can edit and debug its own source code.
- https://codeberg.org/akkartik/template-live-editor.love -- a template for building "free-wheeling" live programs (easy to fork, can be modified as they run), with a text editor primitive.
- https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love -- a free-wheeling 'browser' for a Lua-based markup language built as a live program.
- https://codeberg.org/akkartik/driver.love -- a programming environment for modifying free-wheeling programs while they run.