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https://github.com/hishamhm/dit
http://hisham.hm/dit/

A sane text editor.

Not impressive compared to mcedit from Midnight Commander.

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• 2017-06-09 – 0.4 on Devuan beta1
• 2011-08-09 – (version not recorded) on Unity Linux (version not recorded)
• 2010-11-01 – SVN on Unity Linux 32bit 2001.1
• 2010-01-08 – SVN on Unity Linux 64bit-beta2
• 2009-04-25 – SVN on (distribution not recorded)

• 2009-03-23 – SVN on (distribution not recorded)

2017-06-09 – 0.4 ∞

# as root

\apt-get  install libncursesw5-dev
./configure
\make
\make  install

• 765kB binary.. eesh.
• Control-left and control-right don’t use the word boundaries I’m used to.
• Now has home/end
• Now has control-home/control-end
• Still doesn’t have control-up/`control-down
• Still doesn’t have simple menus

• The file ChangeLog is from 0.1

Overall it’s not impressive compared to mcedit from Midnight Commander.

2011-08-09 – (version not recorded) ∞

I’ve known about Hisham Muhammad for a while now, because of GoboLinux. I was even prepared to use GoboLinux as my main desktop, but its development has been crawling. When I bumped into his replacement for ‘top’ named htop I was impressed. No, I was astounded.

Completely separately, I bumped into a new console editor project, dit. It’s pre-release, some nice features.. and. Oh hell, it’s one of Hisham’s projects, I have to check this out.

I can’t contain my glee. Here are the totally groundbreaking features, never before seen all together in one editor.

• The ability to pageup and pagedown. Revolutionary!
• Control-left and control-right to hop words. Amazing!
• Control-s to save, control-q to quit. Incredible!

• Control-c to copy, control-x to cut, control-v to paste. Astounding!

There’s no sarcasm there at all either. A usable text editor.

Mind you, dit is pre-release and it’s missing a whole huge whack of stuff. I hope to see home/end, control-home/control-end, control-up/control-down and simple menus. To be honest, I can’t think of much else I’d need except for decent search and replace functionality.

It’s also got highlighting, some indentation wizardry, and probably other stuff I haven’t discovered yet.

Installation ∞

Unfortunately I cannot get liblua-devel installed to re-test dit, as I’m on a very alpha Unity Linux which has broken dependencies before their switch to Mandriva repositories, 2011-08-09.

sh
\gksu \
  " \
  smart install \
    svn \
    autoconf \
    automake \
    liblua-devel \
  "
svn co dit-editor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dit-editor/trunk dit 
cd dit
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
gksu "make install"

Without lua, I get:

checking liblua version is in range 501 <= v < 502... no
configure: error: in `/mnt/data/live/_inbox/software/dit':
configure: error: Lua libraries version not in desired range

2010-11-01 – SVN ∞

smart install autoconf autogen automake liblua-devel
svn co dit-editor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dit-editor/trunk dit
cd dit
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

When running, I get:

Warning: could not parse terminal rules file terminals/xterm-color

• Doesn’t remember the filename when I do dit newfile.txt, it makes me type it.

• segfaults when saving a new file. Hrm.

2010-01-08 – SVN ∞

smart install autoconf autogen automake
svn co dit-editor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dit-editor/trunk dit
cd dit
./autogen.sh
sh configure
# Fixes:  make: execvp: scripts/GenHeaders: Permission denied
chmod +x scripts/*
make

errors:

...  
/path/to/dit/TabManager.c:298: undefined reference to `Vector_size'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [dit] Error 1

I give up..

2009-04-25 – SVN ∞

svn co dit-editor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dit-editor/trunk dit
cd dit
su
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

• omg, the first editor with control-left/control-right, shift highlighting, control-x/control-v
• pageup/down work now!

• does highlighting based on file extension. C and Bash were tested and work.

  • I don’t know what he’s thinking to have dark blue used.. sigh.

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• no home/end
• I prefer control-right to hop over the spaces before the next word, it’s way faster to move around even though it catches that blank space.

• saving does not recognize ~

  • needs control-o for opening a file.

• I saved a file, and now it segfaults and removes line breaks from my terminal when I try to restart it.

  • I did another make install to fix it.

• I can do this, although it freezes dit:

echo foo|dit

2009-03-23 – SVN ∞

I found out about this because of htop. I loved it so much I tracked down more about the author to learn he’s the GoboLinux dude. So this program ought to be awesome too.

This is a program to keep an eye on.

On startup, I got:

Warning: could not parse terminal rules file terminals/xterm-color

• pageup/pagedown don’t work
• Needs an F1 help file.
• F10 to save, should be able to press escape to abort the prompt and continue editing.
• There are some resize background colour issues. Occasionally, but not always, when I resize the black working area becomes cyan like the border colour.
• I thought it was mouse aware.

• His screenshot was showing syntax highlighting, but it wasn’t working for me.