program

it-edit

version

2.91

author

Brüggemann Eddie

contact

<mrcyberfighter@gmail.com>

license

GPLv3

website

<http://www.open-source-projects.net/IT-Edit/IT-Edit_presentation.html>

They are 2 sort of programmers in their habits of writing programs:

• They which use an IDE with full integrated functionalities.
• They which use an text editor to write their programs and a terminal to compile, debug or launch them and some other tools separately.

Because i'am an programmer from the second category and because i remark that i often use an additional other tools.

I decide to write my own text editor program which provide me all the functionalities that i need to get a development environment fully adapt to my requirement.

Which consist of a terminal integrated text-editor with which you can access all you require directly from the editor: documentation, GUI applications, ...

it-edit provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities:

• Cut, Copy and Paste.
• Duplicate a line or the selected text.
• Undo/Redo functionalities.
• Search and replace functionalities.
• Jump to the given line number.
• Enable | Disable the use of tabs.

And an files managing interface for:

• Open a new empty file.
• Open the file you want.
• Open an recent file.
• Save the editor content.
• Save the editor content as the filename you want.
• Save all open files.
• Reload file.
• File informations.

it-edit provide terminals in the same window as the editor, as a sidebar, which can easily shown, hidden and resized.

You can add and remove as many terminals as you want to the sidebar...

it-edit provide a big terminal occupying the full interface, dividable into 4 resizable terminals, to which you can easy toggle from the main window.

For executing commands like compilation, debugging, and so soon directly from the editor.

I intend to implement an manpages reading interface, in an toplevel terminal window (so it can be resize, minimize, maximize and closed),

but i remark by implementing it that i restrict the command to execute the man [section] page command.

So i decide to provide the same functionality but without restricting it to the manpage displaying, to expand it to execute any command you want in an toplevel terminal.

It result in a functionality to execute a command in a toplevel terminal, which can be resize, minimize, maximize and close.

After the execution of the command the toplevel terminal is yours and can continue to enter commands...

I intend to implement launching of registered offline HTML documentation in a toplevel window,

but i remark by implementing it that i restrict it to offline HTML pages.

So i decide to provide the same functionality with registering any file you like.

The registered files are launched with the default program for this filetype.

After registering the files, you can easy launch it and access them all directly from it-edit.

I want to launch necessary GUI tools directly from the editor.

So it-edit permit to register the application you want to get direct access to it from your editor.

Like: A GUI diff tool, A GUI debugger, a smart python interpreter, a calculator, a color picker, a dictionary, and so soon...

You can start it-edit from the command line with a space delimited files list, as argument, which will be opened in the editor at start.

Use the it-edit icon to open it-edit or with your files-manager you can select files to open with it-edit.

To know for files managing:

• Open a new empty file use the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + n.
• Open a file by selecting it with a file selector, use the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + o.
• You can open a recent file by selecting it in the list from the menu item.
• Save the current editor content use the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + s.
• Save all open files use the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + Maj + S.
• Reload file will reload the last saved version from the file in the editor, use the menu item or the shortcut Ctrl + R.
• File informations will display informations, which you can edit, about the current file, use the menu item or the shortcut Ctrl + I.

You can easily navigate into your open files by using the pop-up menu or by clicking on the file tab.

You can reorder your open files as wanted by drag and drop the files tabs.

To know about edition:

• Undo use the contextual menu or the shortcut: Ctrl + Z.
• Redo use the contextual menu or the shortcut: Ctrl + Maj + Z.
• Cut use the contextual menu, the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + X.
• Copy use the contextual menu, the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + C.
• Paste use the contextual menu, the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + V.
• Duplicate the selection or the line at cursor position, use the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + D.
• Use space instead of tabs: for switching between tab use or not, use the menu item or the shortcut: Ctrl + P.

• Go to line number use the menu item, the button or the shortcut: Ctrl + g.

  Enter an valid line number and press Enter or the Apply button to move the editor to the wanted line, which will be highlight.

• Find and replace functionality.

  You can show | hide the find and replace bar by using the toggle button.

  The search and replace bar has following functionalities:

  • Search button: this will highlight all the matching occurrences from the search term and moving the editor to the first occurrence position.

  • Next button: highlight the next matching occurrence from the search term.

    Pressing Enter when the search entry field has the focus has the same effect.

    The search will start at selection or at the cursor position.

    If you select some text with the mouse and using the shortcut Ctrl + f.

    The search field will toggle on if not visible and will contains the selected text as search term.

    note

    You can use the shortcut Ctrl + + instead of the button (Use the keypad).

  • Previous button: highlight the previous matching occurrence from the search term.

    The search will start at selection or at the cursor position.

    If you select some text with the mouse and use the shortcut Ctrl + f.

    The search field will toggle on if not visible and will contains the selected text as search term.

    note

    You can use the shortcut Ctrl + - instead of the button (Use the keypad).

  • Replace button: replace the current matching occurrence, which is highlight, with the content of the replace field.

    If this don't work simply hit the Next or Previous button, this occur if you never make a search before: a search must be done before replacing.

    note

    You can use the shortcut Ctrl + Enter instead of the button (Use the keypad).

  • Replace all button: replace all the matching occurrence in the current file.

    note

    You can use the shortcut Ctrl + Maj + Enter instead of the button (Use the keypad).

  • Mode: You can select how your search term(s) will be interpreted.
    • Raw text: all search terms matching.
    • Word boundary: The search term must be a complete word, not a part but an variable with separators like underscores or points will work too.
    • Regular expression: Perl compatible regular expression (REGEX).
  • Close button: hide the search and replace bar and clear the highlight.

  note

  if you select some text with the mouse and use the Ctrl + f shortcut.

  • The search and replace bar will be show.
  • The search field will be filled with your selection.
  • The search will begin at your selection position if you hit the Next or Previous button.

• Command execution: use the menu item, the Cmd button or the shortcut: Ctrl + e.

  This will display a little toplevel in which you can enter a command.

  Then press the Enter key or the Apply button to execute the command in a terminal include in a toplevel window (so you can resize, minimize, maximize and close the window).

  After the execution from the command the toplevel terminal is yours so can continue to enter commands and use it.

• Sidebar Terminals adding: You can add some terminals, 2 per item, to the sidebar, reorder them, and remove it.

  Use the menu item or the shortcut Ctrl + Maj + T.

• Big terminal(s) switch: You can switch between a very big terminal and a very big terminal divided into 4 terminals.

  Use the menu item or the shortcut Ctrl + Maj + B.

• File Handler: use the menu item or the shortcut: Ctrl + H.

  For using this features you must register files from the Files handler manager tab interface reachable through the settings->Configure program menu item.

  For registering a file you must give it a title which will appears as the button text in the File Handler window and selecting the corresponding file.

  Then when you press the button in the File Handler window, the file will be launched with the default application for this filetype.

  This features was thinking for fast access to offline HTML documentation but it's being expanded to any filetype, so you can consult pdf documentation too, but not only, this features can be use for any use you want.

  The registered files can be removed from the File handler list through the same interface with which you add it.

• Application launcher: use the menu item or the shortcut: Ctrl + A.

  This will display an application chooser. By selecting an application you will launch it.

You can set different GUI tools launcher from it-edit:

Under the section programming you can set:

• A GUI diff tool.
• A GUI debugger.
• A GUI smart python interpreter.
• A user interface designer.
• devhelp.

Under the utilities section you can set:

• A GUI calculator.
• A GUI color picker.
• A GUI dictionary.
• A file manager.
• A GUI note taker.
• A browser.

Else you can register the application you want under the others section.

This is very practice to launch an application directly from it-edit instead of:

1. Minimize it-edit
2. Go to the menu.
3. Find the application you want to launch.
4. Launch your application.

• Big term Show | hide: use the menu item, the toggle button or the shortcut: Ctrl + B.
• Terminals show | hide: use the menu item, the toggle button or the shortcut: Ctrl + T.
• Button bar show | hide: use the menu item.
• Fullscreen toggle: use the menu item.

• Syntax highlight: use the menu item.

  To set the syntax highlight on, on the current edited text from the supported language.

• Editor schemes: use the menu item.

  To set the appearance from the text editor.

  Currently they are 13 different schemes available in it-edit:

  • build
  • Classic.
  • Cobalt.
  • emacs.
  • Kate (default).
  • matrix
  • Oblivion.
  • slate.
  • Solarized-dark.
  • Solarized-light.
  • Tango.
  • turbo.
  • vsdark.

  Each time you change the scheme your choice is registered so that you don't have to change it every time you start it-edit.

• Configure program: use the menu item.

  To access to the program configuration window which is divide into 3 part:

  • Editor settings:

    • Font (Monospace 10 per default).
    • Display lines numbers (Enabled per default).
    • Display TABS characters (Enabled per default).
    • Use auto-indent (Enabled per default).
    • Indent width (2 per default).
    • Use spaces instead of TABS (Enabled per default).
    • TABS width (2 per default).
    • Create a backup file by saving (Enabled per default).
    • Remove trailing space at saving (Enabled per default).

  • Terminal settings:

    • Appearance:

      • Font (Monospace 10 per default).
      • Font scale (1.0 per default).
      • Cursor type (BLOCK per default).
      • Cursor color (white per default).
      • Cursor blink mode (BLINK_SYSTEM per default).
      • Background color (Black per default).
      • Foreground color (White per default).
      • Allow bold (True per default).
      • Bold color (White per default).
      • Pointer autohide (Disabled per default).

    • Settings:

      • User shell (Default to your default shell).
      • Start directory when you launch a terminal.
      • Audible bell (Enabled per default).

      • Scroll back lines.

        • Unlimited (Default).
        • Settable to the value you want.

      • Scrolling.

        • Scroll on output (Disabled per default).

          Controls whether or not the terminal will forcibly scroll to the bottom of the terminal when the new data is received.

        • Scroll on keystroke (Enabled per default).

          Controls whether or not the terminal will forcibly scroll to the bottom of the terminal when the user presses a key.

      • Erase binding.

        • Backspace key binding (Default to automatic).
        • Delete key binding (Default to automatic).

  • File handler manager:

    Here you can add and remove files for the File handler feature.

  • Applications:

    Here you can define shortcuts for the applications you want.

  • Settings

    • Define the ratio main-interface and sidebar in form of a floating-point value between 0.0-1.0,

      representing the surface the sidebar will cover and so the width of the sidebar terminals.

    • Show | hide the sidebar terminals at start.
    • Show | hide the big terminal at start.
    • Choosing to divide the big terminal in 4 at start.
    • Toggle to fullscreen at start.
    • Launch a command in the terminals at start.
    • Set it-edit as your default editor or reset the settings.

Shortcut	functionality	Mnemonic
Ctrl + n	New file	n = new
Ctrl + o	Open file	o = open
Ctrl + s	Save file	s = save
Ctrl + Maj + S	Save all files	S = Save
Ctrl + r	Reload file	r = reload
Ctrl + i	File informations	i = Informations
Ctrl + z	Undo	None
Ctrl + Maj + Z	Redo	None
Ctrl + f	Search	f = find
Ctrl + Enter	Replace	none
Ctrl + Maj + Enter	Replace all	none
Ctrl + +	Next	none
Ctrl + -	Previous	none
Ctrl + g	Go to line number	g = go to
Ctrl + x	Cut	None
Ctrl + c	Copy	c = copy
Ctrl + v	Paste	None
Ctrl + d	Duplicate text	d = duplicate
Ctrl + p	Use tabs	none
Ctrl + e	Execute command	e = execute
Ctrl + b	Show|Hide big term	b = big term
Ctrl + Maj + B	big term switch	B = Big term
Ctrl + t	Show | Hide terminal	t = terminal
Ctrl + Maj + T	Add new terminals	T = Terminals
Maj + Copy	Copy from terminal	none
Maj + Insert	Paste to terminal	none
Ctrl + h	File handler	h = handler
Ctrl + a	Application launcher	a = application
Ctrl + q	Quit application	q = quit

Shortcut	functionality	Mnemonic
Shift + Copy (KP 1)	Copy from terminal	none
Shift + Insert (KP 0)	Paste to terminal	none
Shift + Ctrl + T	Open new tab	t = tab
Shift + Ctrl + -	Decrease font-scale	- = decrease
Shift + Ctrl + +	Increase font-scale	+ = increase

note

Else you can close a tab and reset the terminal from the terminals contextual menu.

• ActionScript (text/x-actionscript)
  • *.as
• Ada (text/x-ada, text/x-adasrc)
  • *.adb
  • *.ads
• ANS-Forth94 (text/x-forth)
  • *.4th
  • *.forth
• ASP (text/x-asp, application/x-asp, application/x-asap)
  • *.asp
• Automake
  • Makefile.am
  • GNUmakefile.am
• awk (application/x-awk)
  • *.awk
• BennuGD
  • *.prg
• BibTeX (text/x-bibtex)
  • *.bib
• Boo (text/x-boo)
  • *.boo
• C (text/x-c, text/x-csrc, image/x-xpixmap)
  • *.c
• C# (text/x-csharpsrc, text/x-csharp)
  • *.cs
• C++ (text/x-c++, text/x-cpp, text/x-c++src)
  • *.cpp
  • *.cxx
  • *.cc
  • *.C
  • *.c++
• ChangeLog (text/x-changelog)
  • ChangeLog
• C++ Header (text/x-c++hdr)
  • *.hh
  • *.hp
  • *.hpp
  • *.h++
• C/C++/ObjC Header (text/x-chdr)
  • *.h
• CG Shader Language
  • *.cg
• CMake
  • CMakeLists.txt
  • *.cmake
  • *.cmake.in
  • *.ctest
  • *.ctest.in
• COBOL
  • *.cbl
  • *.cob
  • *.cbd
  • *.cdb
  • *.cdc
• CSS (text/css)
  • *.css
  • *.CSSL
• CSV (text/csv)
  • *.csv
• CUDA
  • *.cu
  • *.cuh
• D (text/x-dsrc)
  • *.d
• .desktop (application/x-gnome-app-info, application/x-desktop)
  • *.desktop
  • *.kdelnk
• Diff (text/x-diff, text/x-patch, text/x-reject)
  • *.diff
  • *.patch
  • *.rej
• DocBook (application/docbook+xml)
  • *.docbook
• DOS Batch
  • *.bat
  • *.cmd
  • *.sys
• DPatch (text/x-dpatch)
  • *.dpatch
• DTD (text/x-dtd)
  • *.dtd
• Eiffel (text/x-eiffel)
  • *.e
  • *.eif
• Erlang (text/x-erlang)
  • *.erl
  • *.hrl
• F# (text/x-fsharp)
  • *.fs
• FCL
  • *.fcl
• Forth (text/x-forth)
  • *.frt
  • *.fs
• Fortran 95 (text/x-fortran)
  • *.f
  • *.f90
  • *.f95
  • *.for
  • *.F
  • *.F90
• GAP (text/x-gap)
  • *.g
  • *.gd
  • *.gi
  • *.gap
• GDB Log
  • *.gdb
• Genie (text/x-genie)
  • *.gs
• gettext translation (text/x-po, text/x-pot, text/x-pox, text/x-gettext-translation, text/x-gettext-translation-template)
  • *.po
  • *.pot
• Go
  • *.go
• Graphviz Dot (text/vnd.graphviz)
  • *.dot
  • *.gv
• gtk-doc
• GtkRC (text/x-gtkrc)
  • gtkrc
  • *.gtkrc
  • gtkrc-*
  • *.gtkrc-*
• Haddock
• Haskell (text/x-haskell)
  • *.hs
• HTML (text/html)
  • *.html
  • *.htm
• IDL (text/x-idl)
  • *.idl
• IDL-Exelis
  • *.pro
• ImageJ
  • *.ijm
• .ini (text/x-ini-file, application/x-ini-file)
  • *.ini
• J
  • *.ijs
• Jade
  • *.jade
• Java (text/x-java)
  • *.java
• JavaScript (application/javascript, application/x-javascript, text/x-javascript, text/javascript, text/x-js)
  • *.js
  • *.node
• JSON (application/json)
  • *.json
  • *.geojson
  • *.topojson
• Julia
  • *.jl
• LaTeX (text/x-tex)
  • *.tex
  • *.ltx
  • *.sty
  • *.cls
  • *.dtx
  • *.ins
  • *.bbl
• Lex
  • *.l
  • *.lex
  • *.flex
• libtool (text/x-libtool)
  • *.la
  • *.lai
  • *.lo
• Literate Haskell (text/x-literate-haskell)
  • *.lhs
• LLVM IR
  • *.ll
• Lua (text/x-lua)
  • *.lua
• m4 (application/x-m4)
  • *.m4
  • configure.ac
  • configure.in
• Makefile (text/x-makefile)
  • [Mm]akefile
  • GNUmakefile
  • *.make
  • *.mak
  • *.mk
• Mallard
  • *.page
• Markdown (text/x-markdown)
  • *.markdown
  • *.md
  • *.mkd
• Matlab (text/x-matlab)
  • *.m
• MediaWiki
• Meson (text/x-meson)
  • meson.build
  • meson_options.txt
• ML standard
  • *.sml
  • *.sig
• Modelica (text/x-modelica)
  • *.mo
  • *.mop
• MXML
  • *.mxml
• Nemerle (text/x-nemerle)
  • *.n
• NetRexx (text/x-netrexx)
  • *.nrx
• NSIS
  • *.nsi
  • *.nsh
• Objective-C (text/x-objcsrc)
  • *.m
• Objective-J (text/x-objective-j)
  • *.j
• OCaml (text/x-ocaml)
  • *.ml
  • *.mli
  • *.mll
  • *.mly
• OCL (text/x-ocl)
  • *.ocl
• Octave (text/x-octave)
  • *.m
• OOC
  • *.ooc
• Opal
  • *.sign
  • *.impl
• OpenCL
  • *.cl
• OpenGL Shading Language
  • *.glslv
  • *.glslf
• Pascal (text/x-pascal)
  • *.p
  • *.pas
• Perl (text/x-perl, application/x-perl)
  • *.pl
  • *.pm
  • *.al
  • *.perl
  • *.t
• PHP (text/x-php, application/x-php, text/x-php-source, application/x-php-source)
  • *.php
  • *.php3
  • *.php4
  • *.phtml
• Pig
  • *.pig
• pkg-config (text/x-pkg-config)
  • *.pc
• Prolog (text/x-prolog)
  • *.prolog
• Protobuf (text/x-protobuf)
  • *.proto
• Puppet
  • *.pp
• Python (text/x-python, application/x-python)
  • *.py
• Python 3
  • *.py3
• R (text/x-R)
  • *.R
  • *.Rout
  • *.r
  • *.Rhistory
  • *.Rt
  • *.Rout.save
  • *.Rout.fail
• reStructuredText (text/x-rst)
  • *.rst
• Ruby (application/x-ruby, text/x-ruby)
  • *.rb
  • *.rake
  • *.gemspec
  • Rakefile
  • Capfile
  • Gemfile
• Rust
  • *.rs
• Scala (text/x-scala)
  • *.scala
• Scheme (text/x-scheme)
  • *.scm
• Scilab
  • *.sce
  • *.sci
• sh (text/x-shellscript, application/x-shellscript, text/x-sh)
  • *.sh
  • *bashrc
  • .profile
  • .bash_profile
• SPARQL (application/sparql-query)
  • *.rq
• Specification RPM (text/x-rpm-spec)
  • *.spec
• SQL (text/x-sql)
  • *.sql
• Sweave
  • *.rnw
  • *.Rnw
  • *.snw
  • *.Snw
• SystemVerilog
  • *.sv
  • *.svh
• SystemVerilog Bluespec
  • *.bsv
• Tcl (text/x-tcl, application/x-tcl)
  • *.tcl
  • *.tk
• Texinfo (text/x-texinfo)
  • *.texi
  • *.texinfo
• Thrift
  • *.thrift
• txt2tags
  • *.t2t
• Vala (text/x-vala)
  • *.vala
  • *.vapi
• VB.NET (text/x-vbnet, text/x-vb)
  • *.vb
• Verilog (text/x-verilog-src)
  • *.v
• VHDL (text/x-vhdl)
  • *.vhd
• XML (application/xml, text/xml)
  • *.xml
  • *.xspf
  • *.siv
  • *.smil
  • *.smi
  • *.sml
  • *.kino
  • *.xul
  • *.xbel
  • *.abw
  • *.zabw
  • *.glade
  • *.jnlp
  • *.xhtml
  • *.svg
  • *.mml
  • *.rdf
  • *.rss
  • *.wml
  • *.xmi
  • *.fo
  • *.xslfo
• XSLT (application/xslt+xml)
  • *.xslt
  • *.xsl
• Yacc (text/x-yacc, text/x-bison)
  • *.y
  • *.yacc
• YAML (application/x-yaml)
  • *.yaml
  • *.yml

Author

Eddie Brüggemann

Contact

<mrcyberfighter@gmail.com>

License

GPLv3.

Thank's to my beloved mother, my family and to the doctors.

Stay away from drugs: drugs destroy your brain and your life.