Ze ed

Like deez, but backwards.

Ze is a terminal vim-like text editor.

It uses a treap data structure to represent file by lines and remembers versions with added semi-persistence.

Dependencies

• ncurses c library

Build

Described in the Makefile

Usage

ze <filename>

Modes

Ze has three modes within which you can edit a file - normal, insert and select. Those represent what the user is currently doing:

• insert mode: Writing text
• select mode: Operations on a selection
• normal mode: Everything else

Default keybinds

<char> - Action

Normal mode

• h,j,k,l - Vim-like movement
• g - Goto a specified line
• G - Goto the last line
• d - Remove current line
• x - Remove character under cursor
• o - Insert empty line before the current
• q - Quit
• w - Save
• u - Undo latest editation action
• f - Find next appearance a specified string
• n - Repeat last find
• s - Find-and-replace
• r - Repeat last find-and-replace
• p - Paste selection
• i - Change into insert mode
• v - Change into select mode

Insert mode

• <ESC> - Change into normal mode
• Anything else is written under the cursor

Select mode

• h,j,k,l - Vim-like movement
• g - Goto a specified line
• G - Goto the last line
• v - Copy selected text
• x - Remove selected text
• <ESC> - Change into normal mode