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dte

A small and easy to use console text editor.

Features

  * Multiple buffers/tabs
  * Unlimited undo/redo
  * Regex search and replace
  * Syntax highlighting
  * Customizable color schemes (including 24-bit RGB)
  * Customizable key bindings
  * Command language with auto-completion
  * Unicode 15 compatible text rendering
  * Support for all xterm key combos (including modifyOtherKeys)
  * Support for kitty's keyboard protocol
  * Support for terminal synchronized updates (to eliminate screen
    tearing)
  * Support for multiple encodings (using iconv)
  * Jump to definition (using ctags)
  * Jump to compiler error
  * Copy to system clipboard (using OSC 52, which works over SSH)
  * EditorConfig support
  * Minimal dependencies (just libc on most systems)
  * Portable (to any POSIX 2008 operating system)
  * Fast startup (~10ms)

Screenshot

screenshot

Installing

dte can be installed via package manager on the following platforms:

          OS                  Install command
Debian                  apt-get install dte
Ubuntu                  apt-get install dte
Arch Linux (AUR)        $AUR_HELPER -S dte
Void Linux              xbps-install -S dte
Slackware (SlackBuilds) See: SlackBuild Usage HOWTO
FreeBSD                 pkg install dte
DragonFly BSD (DPorts)  pkg install dte
OpenBSD                 pkg_add dte
NetBSD (pkgsrc)         pkg_add dte
Android (Termux)        pkg install dte

Building

To build from source, first ensure the following dependencies are
installed:

  * GCC 4.8+ or Clang
  * GNU Make 4.0+
  * iconv library (usually provided by libc on Linux/FreeBSD)

...then download and unpack the latest release tarball:

curl -LO https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dist/dte/dte-1.11.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf dte-1.11.1.tar.gz
cd dte-1.11.1

...and compile and install:

make && sudo make install

If you're using macOS, it may be necessary to install a more recent
version of GNU Make (e.g. with brew) and then use gmake in place of
make. For example:

brew install make
gmake && sudo gmake install

Documentation

After installing, you can access the documentation in man page
format:

  * man dte
  * man dterc
  * man dte-syntax

See also:

  * Contributor guidelines
  * Packaging information

Contact

Questions and patches may be sent by email, to the address printed
by:

echo ofmisnmfbqgzdfchcbamilkoca | tr zka-hm-t @.m-ta-h

...although GitLab issue reports and merge requests are preferred,
when possible.

For general discussion, we also have a #dte channel on the
Libera.Chat IRC network.

Donations

Donations can be made via Liberapay. All support is very much
appreciated and allows me to spend more time working on dte.

License

Copyright (c) 2013-2024 Craig Barnes.
Copyright (c) 2010-2015 Timo Hirvonen.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as
published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License version 2 for more details.

Source Code

The primary git repository and issue tracker is hosted at https://
gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte.

The project is also on various other code hosting sites, but these
are only secondary mirrors and may occasionally lag behind GitLab by
a few hours.

(c) Craig Barnes 2017-2021