Acorn.jl

A pure julia text editor

Features

Use in REPL or from command line

Commands

Customizable key bindings to commands

Installing

Pkg.clone("https://github.com/nick-paul/Acorn.jl.git")

Usage

From within the REPL:

using Acorn
julia> acorn("filename")

From the command line

$ julia -E "using Acorn;acorn()" filename

Use an alias to make command line easier:

$ alias acornjl='julia -E "using Acorn;acorn()"'
$ acornjl filename

Commands

Press Ctrl-P to enter command mode. Type 'help COMMAND' for more information on that command.

arguments in [brackets] are optional

• help [CMD]: display help information for CMD
• quit: quit the editor
• open FILE: open a file, create a new one if needed
• save [FILE]: save the file, if a new filename is provided, save as that name
• find [STR]: start interactive find. if STR is provided, start interactive search with STR
• echo STR: display STR as a message
• set param_name param: set parameter param_name to param. ex: set tab_stop 4
• bind char command: bind Ctrl-(char) to the command command. ex: bind s save, `bind h echo Hello world!"