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buffalo is a terminal text editor written in C and built on top of ncurses.
Compile the program with make, dependencies are the ncurses and pthread libraries. Then run it by passing the name of a file as and argument. The file will be created if it does not already exist:
$ make
$ ./buffalo hello.txtThe editor can be navigated using the arrow keys or scrolled with the mouse.
The editor can be configured with a .buffalorc file. The editor first checks for such a file in the current directory, and if not found it looks in the home directory. The configuration file has a simple key/value structure. Here's an example:
build: make
test: make test
This configures the editor to use make as the build command and make test as the test command.
The following shortcuts are recognized:
Ctrl+S: save
Ctrl+Q: quit
Ctrl+B: build
Ctrl+T: test
There are many unimplemented features:
- Horizontal scrolling has not been implemented, so characters past the width of the terminal cannot be viewed, but they can be edited.
- Tab input has not been implemented
This project was built as my final project for CSC-213: Operating Systems at Grinnell College. Some of the initial code was borrowed from Charlie Curtsinger. Slides for my presentation can be found under resources.