editv

A minimal C based text editor

This a project with minimal dependencies, Graphics are rendered with SDL3 and everything else is either pure C or platform dependant.

It is currently very basic, but supports everything needed in a text editor

Features

• Open/Save files
• 4 directional Cursor Movement
• Text Scrolling
• Pasting from clipboard

Usage

Open to immediately begin writing

To view options hold ‘ctrl’ and press a corresponding key ‘o’ - Open file ‘s’ - save file ‘v’ - paste from clipboard ‘q’ - quit

Building

The only dependency this project has is SDL3, so that will need to be installed to build.

On non-Windows platforms, define PORTABLE=1 to generate a non platform specific build that takes file path input through the console rather than a window

Visual Studio

Ensure SDL3 is installed into C:/SDL (https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-cmake)

Open and build editv.sln

If any errors occur, you can manually link SDL by following thse steps:

Adding your SDL3 installation’s include folder to Project->Properties->editv Properties->C/C++->Additional Include Directories

Adding your SDL3 installation’s SDL3.lib file to Project->Properties->editv Properties->Linker->Additional Dependencies (note this has to be the actual SDL3.lib file, and not the lib folder)

CMake

Ensure CMake is installed

In the source directory, create a folder named ‘build’. Then run these commands:

cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

gcc

Ensure GCC is installed

In the source directory, run this command to build a portable version of editv

gcc -DPORTABLE=1 editv/main.c editv/storage.c editv/interface.c -o build/editv -I/path/to/SDL3/include -L/path/to/SDL3/lib -lSDL3