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Author Topic: 184 steps to Build Your Own Text Editor in C  (Read 3605 times)

Edvard

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184 steps to Build Your Own Text Editor in C
« on: April 15, 2017, 12:25 AM »
Build Your Own Text Editor
Welcome! This is an instruction booklet that shows you how to build a text editor in C.

The text editor is antirez’s kilo, with some changes. It’s about 1000 lines of C in a single file with no dependencies, and it implements all the basic features you expect in a minimal editor, as well as syntax highlighting and a search feature.

This booklet walks you through building the editor in 184 steps. Each step, you’ll add, change, or remove a few lines of code. Most steps, you’ll be able to observe the changes you made by compiling and running the program immediately afterwards.

I explain each step along the way, sometimes in a lot of detail. Feel free to skim or skip the prose, as the main point of this is that you are going to build a text editor from scratch! Anything you learn along the way is bonus, and there’s plenty to learn just from typing in the changes to the code and observing the results.



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Re: 184 steps to Build Your Own Text Editor in C
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2017, 06:38 AM »
Neat  :Thmbsup: