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          Remedying the pain of command line editing since 2014

Suplemon is a modern, powerful and intuitive console text editor with multi cursor support. Suplemon replicates Sublime Text style functionality in the terminal with the ease of use of Nano. http://github.com/richrd/suplemon

You can just clone the repo, and try Suplemon, or also install it system wide.

git clone https://github.com/richrd/suplemon.git
cd suplemon
python3 suplemon.py

Install the latest version from PIP:

sudo pip3 install suplemon

To install Suplemon from the repo run the setup script:

sudo python3 setup.py install

• Must use Python 3.3 or higher for proper character encoding support.
• Python2.7 (and maybe lower) versions work, but aren't officially supported (some special characters won't work etc).
• The master branch is considered stable.
• Tested on Unix.

Dev Branch Status:

No dependencies outside the Python Standard Library required.

• Pygments

For support for syntax highlighting over 300 languages.

• Flake8

For showing linting for Python files.

• xsel

For system clipboard support on X Window (Linux).

See docs/optional-dependencies.md for installation instructions.

suplemon # New file in the current directory
suplemon [filename]... # Open one or more files

Suplemon is an intuitive command line text editor. It supports multiple cursors out of the box. It is as easy as nano, and has much of the power of Sublime Text. It also supports extensions to allow all kinds of customizations. To get more help hit Ctrl + H in the editor. Suplemon is licensed under the MIT license.

• Terminal text editing with style
• Proper multi cursor editing, Sublime Text style.
• Syntax highlighting
• Autocomplete
• Easy Undo/Redo
• Copy & Paste, with multi line support (and native clipboard support on X11 / Unix)
• Multiple files in tabs
• Powerful Go To feature for jumping to files and lines
• Find and Find next
• Custom keyboard shortcuts
• Mouse support
• Extensions (easy to write your own)
• Lots more...

1. Create a command line text editor with built in multi cursor support. It's awesome!
2. Usability should be even better and easier than nano. It's on par with desktop editors.
3. Multi cursor should be comparable to Sublime Text.
4. Develop Suplemon with Suplemon!!! I've used Suplemon for a long time as my main editor (replacing ST and nano) for all developement, Git commits and everything else.

The suplemon config file is stored at ~/.config/suplemon/suplemon-config.json.

The best way to edit it is to run the config command (Run commands via Ctrl+E). That way Suplemon will automatically reload the configuration when you save the file. To view the default configuration and see what options are available run config defaults via Ctrl+E.

• Ctrl + Q

  Exit

• Ctrl + C

  Copy line(s) to buffer

• Ctrl + X

  Cut line(s) to buffer

• Ctrl + V

  Insert buffer

• Ctrl + K

  Duplicate line

• Ctrl + G

  Go to line number or file (type the beginning of a filename to switch to it). You can also use 'filena:42' to go to line 42 in filename.py etc.

• Ctrl + F

  Search for a string or regular expression (configurable)

• Ctrl + D

  Search for next occurrence or find the word the cursor is on. Adds a new cursor at each new occurrence.

• Alt + Arrow Key

  Add new cursor in arrow direction

• Ctrl + Left / Right

  Jump to previous or next word or line

• ESC

  Revert to a single cursor / Cancel input prompt

• Alt + Page Up

  Move line(s) up

• Alt + Page Down

  Move line(s) down

• Ctrl + S

  Save current file

• F1

  Save file with new name

• F2

  Reload current file

• Ctrl + O

  Open file

• Ctrl + W

  Close file

• Ctrl + Page Up

  Switch to next file

• Ctrl + Page Down

  Switch to previous file

• Ctrl + E

  Run a command.

• F5

  Undo

• F6

  Redo

• F7

  Toggle visible whitespace

• F8

  Toggle mouse mode

• F9

  Toggle line numbers

• F11

  Toggle full screen

• Left Click

  Set cursor at mouse position. Reverts to a single cursor.

• Right Click

  Add a cursor at mouse position.

• Scroll Wheel Up / Down

  Scroll up & down.

If you experience problems, please submit a new issue. If you have a question, need help, or just want to chat head over to the IRC channel #suplemon @ Freenode. I'll be happy to chat with you, see you there!

If you are interested in contributing to Suplemon, development dependencies can be installed via:

# For OS cleanliness, we recommend using `virtualenv` to prevent global contamination
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

After those are installed, tests can be run via:

./test.sh

• Remember cursor positions in files (and restore when opened again)
• Design proper API for plugins/extensions/macros
•  Documentation for v 1.0.0
•  Package Suplemon and upload to PIP

• Display tab characters with a replacement char (tab messes up lines)
• Global clipboard (copy from one file to another)
•  Core
  • Optimize rendering for ssh (minimal screen update)
  • Setting for enabling/disabling undo for cursor changes
  • Selections
  • List of recent files
  • Read only viewer
    • And disable editing Don't disable editing. Instead enable save as.
  • Only refresh cursors when moving around
  • Only refresh modified lines when editing
•  Extensions:
  • Peer to peer colaborative editing. Could be implemented as an extension.
  • Auto backup. Activate on n changes or every n seconds
  • File selector, kind of like what nano has
    • This should be implemented as an extension
    •  Could be triggered with a key binding (and/or override open file)
    • Need to refactor App class to support views instead of just files
    •  A view could be an editor or an extension ui
    •  Extensions should be able to control both status bars and key legend
  • Automatically add ; to end of lines
    • Generalized: add line prepend and append commands
    • Will need multiline comment and string detection etc.

• Input queries can't detect trailing whitespace
• Remember find query if occurance not found (jump to top of file)

For many the command line is a different environment for text editing. Most coders are familiar with GUI text editors and for many vi and emacs have a too steep learning curve. For them (like for me) nano was the weapon of choice. But nano feels clunky and it has its limitations. That's why I wrote my own editor with built in multi cursor support to fix the situation. Another reason is that developing Suplemon is simply fun to do.