text editor program for windows.

I have no idea what I'm doing, and I am not responsible for what might happen as a result of you using it. Use this at your own risk.

I like vim. I like Visual Studio Code. I'm just taking features that I like from both worlds. You might even find it useful, so have at it.

• Notice that Shmedit is still in development, so many useful features (such as copy & paste) do not exist yet.

• mem: The editor's memory.

• Keys:

  • You can write by simply typing letters and numbers. Pretty normal.

  • Delete, Backspace keys - Just like you'd expect.

  • Ctrl + Delete: Remove the word to the right of your cursor and saves its contents in mem.

  • Ctrl + Remove: Remove the word to the left of your cursor.

  • Left, Right, Up, Down keys: Standard navigation.

  • Ctrl + Left, Ctrl + Right: Move one whole word to that direction.

  • Alt + Up, Alt + Down: Move current line up/down.

  • Ctrl + S: Save file.

  • Ctrl + V: Paste from clipboard.

  • Ctrl + Enter: Leave current line and start a new one.

  • Ctrl + D: Duplicate current line.

  • Ctrl + L: Delete current line.

  • FN + Right, FN + Left: Jump to the end/start of the line.

  • FN + Up, FN + Down: Jump 25 lines up/down.

  • Ctrl + ]: Tabify line.

  • Ctrl + [: Untabify line.

  • Ctrl + Z: Undo. Warning: Called commands are not undo-able.

  • Ctrl + U: Switch to default mode.

  • Ctrl + N: Complete word. Press Up or Down to change the current word, and enter to write. Any other key to cancel.

  • Ctrl + C: Start command mode.

  • Ctrl + O: The command 'o: ' will be set, to allow users to open files more easily.

  • Ctrl + F: The command 'f: ' will be set, to allow users to get to find mode more easily.

  • Ctrl + R: The command 'fr: ' will be set, to allow users to get to find&rep mode more easily.

  • Ctrl + B: Switches to visual mode.

    • When in visual mode, you'll have two cursors. A static one (set to the location where you pressed Ctrl + B), and a dynamic one, which you can control.
    • Controlling the visual mode dynamic cursor is done in the same way as normally, altough other modes are not available.
    • Visual mode functions:
      • c: Copy selection.
      • d, r, Backspace: Remove selection.
      • p: Paste from mem. Will be pasted after the dynamic cursor.
      • Alt + Up: Move selection one line up.
      • Alt + Down: Move selection one line down.
      • Ctrl + L: Select select lines from start to end.

  • Alt + Right, Alt + Left: Change edited file.

• Commands:

  After starting command mode (Ctrl + C), you can start writing commands. The editor will parse and run them. Press Ctrl + C to cancel your command, or Enter to exit cmd mode. There are two kinds of commands. Called commands and Instant commands.

  • Called commands: Always start with a colon (:), and are only called once Enter is pressed. Called commands may take parameters as well.
  • Instant commands: Are called as soon as they are detected. Can be prefixed by a number to tell the parser the amount of times it should be run.
    • Example:

      cmd| 12dw
    

    Would delete 12 words. Keep in mind that only the last word deleted will be saved in mem.

  Called commands:

  • o <file name>: Opens the requested file.

    cmd| :o myfile.txt
    

  • mv <new file name>: Changes the name of the file.

    cmd| :mv newfilename.txt
    

  • f <str>: Starts find mode. Press Enter or n to find the next instance of <str>, or any other key to go back to deafult mode.

    cmd| :f StrToLookFor
    

  • fr <str>~<str>: Starts find&rep mode. Press Enter or n to find the next instance of the first argument (the one before the ~), and press them again to replace. Pressing s will skip the current instance. Press any other key to go back to deafult mode.

    cmd| :fr StrToLookFor~StrToBeReplacedWith
    

    • NOTE: In both find and find&rep modes, you can add a '^' at the beginning of the string you are looking for, to tell the editor to look for it up (default is down).

  • exp: Opens the file explorer addon. Use the arrow keys to navigate between the files.

    • Up: Move one file up.
    • Down: Move one file down.
    • Left: Open parent directory.
    • Right, Enter: Open active file/directory.
    • Ctrl + C: Close.
    • Type characters freely to search for the right file.

  • ext: Exits the editor. Warning: This command does not save any file!

  • sext: Saves all edited files and exits the editor.

  • <Integer>: Type any integer and then Enter to jump to that line. For example, the following command will move the cursor to line 45:

    cmd| 45
    

  Instant commands:

  • sav: Save file.
  • u, Enter: Exit cmd mode.
  • q: Saves and quits the active file.
  • Q: Quits the active file. Warning: This command does not save the contents of the file.
  • dw: Deletes the next word and saves its contents in mem.
  • dl: Deletes the current line and saves its contents in mem.
  • db: Removes the last word and saves its contents in mem.
  • p: Pastes the last word from mem.
  • P: Pastes from your clipboard.
  • w: Moves one word to the left.
  • b: Moves one word to the right.
  • ta: Tabify line.
  • ua: Unabify line.
  • j: Move the cursor one line down.
  • k: Move the cursor one line up.
  • h: Move the cursor one character to the left.
  • l: Move the cursor one character to the right.
  • cw: Copy the next word to mem.
  • cl: Copy the next line to mem.
  • cw: Copy the last word to mem.

- All configurations are still under development and there might be changes in the future.
- The config file can only be used to change certain keybinds (for now).
- The syntax is very simple. Every line must be of the following form: 
  ```
  ActionName:KEY
  ```
- Lines that do not follow that form will be ignored (there is no feedback yet). 
- Use a `#` for comments.
- Possible action names:
  ```
  Newline, InstantNewline, Remove, RemoveWord, SaveFile, DuplicateLine, DeleteLine, Tabify, Untabify, Delete, DeleteWord, MoveLeft, MoveRight, MoveUp, MoveDown, MoveWordRight, MoveWordLeft, MoveLineUp, MoveLineDown, JumpToLineEnd, JumpToLineStart, PageUp, PageDown, PasteClipboard, VisualCopy, VisualPaste, VisualDelete, VisualTabify, VisualUntabify, VisualMoveLeft, VisualMoveRight, VisualMoveUp, VisualMoveDown, VisualJumpToLineEnd, VisualJumpToLineStart, VisualMoveWordRight, VisualMoveWordLeft, VisualMoveLineUp, VisualMoveLineDown, VisualSelectLines, VisualPageUp, VisualPageDown
  ```

### Specifying Keys:
  - Use `^` to specify Ctrl.
    ```
    MoveLeft:^L
    ```
    Would set the `MoveLeft` button to `Ctrl + L`
  - Use `@` to specify Alt.
    ```
    MoveLeft:@UP
    ```
    Would set the `MoveLeft` button to `Alt + UP`
  - Use `*` to specify function key.
    ```
    MoveLeft:*UP
    ```
    Would set the `MoveLeft` button to `FN + UP`
  
  - `Enter`: Enter key.
  - `Tab`: Tab key.
  - `Del`: Delete key.
  - `LEFT`, `RIGHT`, `UP`, `DOWN`: Arrow keys.
  - `Del`: Delete key.
  + Other available options (Must be combined with some prefix) : `]`, `\`, `[`
      
### Changing Instant Commands:
 - The syntax must be of the following form: 
 - All new command names must start with a capital letter. 
 ```
 NewName=InstantCommand
 ```
 - That is how you would set "D" to remove words:
 ```
 D=dw
 ```

• A working text editor
• Find & Replace
• Visual mode
• Copy & Paste
• Custom keybindings
• Highlighting
• Custom commands
• Making each user a millionaire