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mdonahoe 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it

I had fun re-implementing antirez's "kilo" editor

https://github.com/antirez/kilo

There's a nice tutorial for it

https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

Great way to learn more about terminal modes and write some raw C

MomsAVoxell 4 months ago [–]

I’m a bit partial to antirez’ LOAD81 editor, myself ..

https://github.com/antirez/LOAD81

.. but that’s mostly because LOAD81 is just fully great as well .. I’ll have to dig into kilo a bit and see how antirez’ two editors compare with each other ..

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