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91 lines
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# An editor for plain text.
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Not very useful by itself, but it's a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html)
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that you can take in other directions besides line drawings, while easily
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sharing patches between forks.
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Designed above all to be easy to modify and give you early warning if your
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modifications break something.
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## Invocation
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To run from the terminal, [pass this directory to LÖVE](https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Running_Games),
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optionally with a file path to edit.
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Alternatively, turn it into a .love file you can double-click on:
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```
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$ zip -r /tmp/text.love *.lua
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```
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By default, it reads/writes the file `lines.txt` in your default
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user/home directory (`https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.getUserDirectory`).
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To open a different file, drop it on the app window.
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## Keyboard shortcuts
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While editing text:
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* `ctrl+f` to find patterns within a file
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* `ctrl+c` to copy, `ctrl+x` to cut, `ctrl+v` to paste
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* `ctrl+z` to undo, `ctrl+y` to redo
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* `ctrl+=` to zoom in, `ctrl+-` to zoom out, `ctrl+0` to reset zoom
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* `alt+right`/`alt+left` to jump to the next/previous word, respectively
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* mouse drag or `shift` + movement to select text, `ctrl+a` to select all
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Exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If
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you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you
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found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact
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## 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
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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
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sluggish, you can lose data.
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* Long wrapping lines can't yet distinguish between the cursor at end of one
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screen line and start of the next, so clicking the mouse to position the
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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.
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## Mirrors and Forks
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This repo is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), an
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editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings.
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Updates to it can be downloaded from the following mirrors:
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* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/text.love
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* https://repo.or.cz/text.love.git
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* https://tildegit.org/akkartik/text.love
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* https://git.tilde.institute/akkartik/text.love
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* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/text.love
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* https://notabug.org/akkartik/text.love
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* https://github.com/akkartik/text.love
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* https://pagure.io/text.love
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Further forks are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it here.
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* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/view.love -- a stripped down version without
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support for modifying files; useful starting point for some forks.
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* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/pong.love -- a fairly minimal example app that
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can edit and debug its own source code.
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* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/template-live-editor -- a template for
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building "free-wheeling" live programs (easy to fork, can be modified as
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they run), with a text editor primitive.
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* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love -- a free-wheeling 'browser' for a
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Lua-based markup language built as a live program.
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* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/driver.love -- a programming environment for
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modifying free-wheeling programs while they run.
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## Feedback
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[Most appreciated.](http://akkartik.name/contact)
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