Devtext - A text editor in C language using NCURSES

Requires NCURSES to work.

Name: Devashish Gaikwad

MIS : 111608023

Current Progress:

arrow keys work

HOME, END work

enter works

backspace works

save works

pageup, pagedown work

search, replace work

copy-paste and cut-paste work

Text can now change color

Devtext has the following Features:

• Open, Read, Write text file

• Runs in Terminal

• Accepts Command Line Arguments

• Use of Curser Keys to Navigate

• Home and End

• Find and Replace

• Pageup and Pagedown

• Cut-Paste and Copy-Paste

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Description:

• Devtext is a Text editor made with NCURSES library for Terminal UI.

• It uses Linked list of lines as buffer to store the document line by line.

• The data structure is called as "buffer", which contains another structure "line".

• Declaring many buffers in the same program is possible (possibly for editing two text files at the same time).

• buffer.c contains all the functions necessary for using buffer data structure.

• gui_ncs.c contains a few Terminal UI functions for rendering the screen.

• NCURSES does not support scrolling with default provided WINDOW data structure(at least not in the modern sense).

• so a workaround has been used (loadwin function).

• The current maximum line width is 180 characters, It can be changed in buffer.h (a constant has been defined in it).

• Window resizing is not supported by NCURSES, thus it is not possible to implement.

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Developed by Devashish Gaikwad : COEP IT : 111608023