Mle

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mle is a small, flexible console text editor written in C.

 Author:        Adam Saponara
 Homepage:      https://github.com/adsr/mle
 Family:        TinyEditors, LinuxEditorFamily, UnixEditorFamily, LuaEditorFamily, UnicodeEditorFamily
 License:       Open source
 Platform:      Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, macOS

Aims

Keep codebase small and hackable
Minimize build-time and run-time dependencies
Make extensible and configurable
Favor simplicity over portability
Use shell commands to enhance functionality (e.g., grep, tree)

Features

Small codebase (<10k sloc)
Full UTF-8 support
Syntax highlighting
Stackable key maps (modes)
Extensible via Lua
Scriptable rc file
Key macros
Multiple splittable windows
Regex search and replace
Large file support
Incremental search
Linear undo and redo
Multiple cursors
Auto indent
Headless mode
Navigation via ctags
Movement via less
Fuzzy file search via fzf
File browsing via tree
File grep via grep
String manip via perl

 Demo:

https://asciinema.org/a/162536

 Screenshot: