LXTXT

A modal text editor written in Go and inspired by VIM.

Installation

Installation scripts are coming soon, but for now the project needs to manually build for your system.

Dependencies

• Go CLI >=1.26.0

To install:

make install

See the makefile for more commands.

Usage

lxtxt [filepath]

Modes

With being a modal editor, LXTXT has multiple modes that allow the user to do different types of actions. These are detailed below.

NORMAL

This is the default mode. You can use navigational commands to move around the buffer as well as save/quit from here. The following commands are available by directly typing them:

• arrow keys/hjkl: move around by one character
• _: move to beginning of the current line
• $: move to end of the current line
• D: delete the current line
• Q: quit the editor without saving
• W: write the buffer to the file
• !: discard changes and revert to initial state when opening file
• ?: show the manpage (if installed)

Note

In most actions, you can type a number before the action command character to repeat that command multiple times!

In addition to these commands, the following commands can be typed to switch into other modes:

• i: enter INSERT mode
• :: enter COMMAND mode

Note

You can return to NORMAL mode from any other mode by pressing esc.

INSERT

INSERT is primarily for directly modifying text. Typing text in this mode will insert it where the cursor currently sits, and arrow keys can still be used to move around here similar to NORMAL mode.

COMMAND

COMMAND is for typing in commands to execute. The following are available commands by default:

• w: save the buffer to the file
• q or q!: quit the editor without saving
• wq: save the buffer to the file and quit the editor
• saveas <path>: set the write path and save the buffer to that location
• sed <regexp> <replaceTxt>: find and replace using a regular expression