Zash

A wicked fast command-line text editor written in pure C.

Dependencies

macOS

brew install cmake ncurses

Ubuntu/Debian Linux

sudo apt install cmake ncurses

Fedora/Red Hat Linux

sudo dnf install cmake ncurses

Installing

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make install

Running

zash /path/to/my/file.txt

To Do

• Handle character deletions correctly
• Handle character insertions correctly
• Add status area
• Make main loop more efficient
• Scroll lines if window length exceeded
• Scroll columns if window width exceeded