.Net/C# port of awesome antirez kilo text editor https://github.com/antirez/kilo. Based on another awesome implementation described in Build Your Own Text Editor. Expected to work in Unix and Windows terminals (cmd, powershell, wsl).

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Prerequisites

.Net 8.0 or higher.

Install .NET on Windows, Linux, and macOS

Windows

winget install Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.8

MacOS

brew install dotnet

Ubuntu

# Add Microsoft package manager feed
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -rs)/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

# installation
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0

Usage

Ensure that .Net 8 or later is installed

dotnet --version

git clone https://github.com/AndreyRusyaev/dotnet-kilo/
cd dotnet-kilo
dotnet run

Changes

• abstracted VT100 sequences (see VT100.cs)
• Unicode support
• Support for Windows terminals (CMD, Powershell, WSL).

Other remarkable kilo ports/implementations

• kiro-editor (Rust)
• kibi (Rust)
• hecto (Rust) via hecto: Build Your Own Text Editor in Rust
• gram (Zig)
• kilo.zig (Zig)
• kilo-in-go (Go)