Edlin Text Editor

Edlin is one of the oldest text editors to date. This project is a school assignment and a spinoff of the MS-DOS line editor Edlin. The text editor offers basic commands for inserting, removing, merging, etc. lines. The full usage description can be found below.

Installation

cloning and building from source

git clone https://github.com/shleppy/edlin-text-editor.git
cd edlin-text-editor
make

The application is now installed under build/apps/edlin.

run

running from the root directory:

./build/apps/edlin

Note: I know this may not be optimal at the moment, but the application is currently only a school assignment and will therefore currently remain in a testing state.

Usage

Help command output

Commands

Basic commands

Name	Command	Optional parameter	User action	Result
Append	a	-	Type line	Line appended
Insert	i	Line number	Type line	Line inserted
Delete	d	Line number	-	Line deleted
Delete last line	z	-	-	Last line removed
Print	p	Line number	-	Text printed on screen

Advanced commands

Name	Command	Optional parameter	User action	Result
Replace line	c	Line number	Type replacement text	Line replaced
Truncate from char	q	Line number	-	Line truncated
Merge consecutive lines	m	Line number	-	Line merged with next line
Extend	x	Line number	Type text	Text appended to line
Undo	u	-	-	Last command is undone*
Redo	r	-	-	Last undone command is redone**

Useful commands

Name	Command	Optional parameter	User action	Result
Load	l	Filename	Type filename	File loaded
Save	s	Filename	Type filename	File saved
Help	h	-	-	Prints a help menu
Quit	e	-	-	Exits the application

*Last known command that is undoable (e.g. append, insert, delete, truncate, merge, etc.)
**Last undone command that is known. Resets after any command has been entered.

Extra information

General application info

• If the optional line numbers for certain commands are not passed the application assumes the current line (probably last line).
• All advanced commands were optional assignments and therefor won't be checked on correctness.
• PR are welcome
• Improvement tips are welcome
• Donations for a software engineering student are welcome

Assignment information

The assignment is the first assignment for the course unmanaged programming languages(UNPL). Goals:

• Learning C++
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Pass by value, reference, address
• Data structures
• Purpose is an intermediate assignment in a new topic(unmanaged programming)

Requirements:

• declaration and implementation seperated in .h and .cpp files
• use of make
• internal structure should be singly linked list with both dummy header and footer
• general preconditions following the use-case descriptions, class diagram and sequence diagrams.(not included here)