Text Editor written in C++

NED is a lightweight, feature-rich text editor built with C++ and ImGui. It offers syntax highlighting, project file tree, and a customizable interface.

Features

• Resizable panes
• Bookmarks
• Custom themes with JSON settings file
• Find and Replace
• File Tree Explorer
• Line numbering
• Syntax highlighting
• Rainbow cursor
• File type icons

MacOS Install

You can install Ned using Homebrew:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/nealmick/ned
cd ned
# Add the tap and install Ned
brew tap nealmick/tap
brew install ned

# Run the editor
ned
# note you must copy the .ned.json settings file into your homefolder ~

Ubuntu and Windows install via WSL

You can install Ned using Ubuntu

git clone --recursive https://github.com/yourusername/ned.git
cd ned
sudo apt install -y build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev libglfw3 libglfw3-dev
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

make

./ned

Build from source

Prerequisites

CMake (version 3.10 or higher) C++17 compatible compiler OpenGL GLFW3

Clone the repository with its submodules:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/nealmick/ned
cd ned
git submodule init
git submodule update

Building the Project

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

make

./text_editor

Contributions are welcome!

TODO:

• Multi-cursor: add keybind to create cursor at end of all find selection
• Selection keybinds: currently cmd-a selects full file, but cmd-shift-a would be nice to select current indentation or current {} [] () "" '' `` blocks...
• Jump to function definition with cmd click.