ocawesome101 / lefthandededitor

A text editor navigated with WASD.

LeftHandedEditor

A simple text editor written in pure Lua.

Partially an experiment in making an editor primarily controlled by the left hand (i.e. navigated with WASD). I'm left-handed, so this makes sense.

A few keybinds operate on a "cut buffer." Every cut/copy operation appends to this buffer, so X and then 10 is equivalent to x 10 times.

Lowercase commands work in insert mode when accompanied by ctrl, e.g. e becomes Ctrl-E.

Uppercase commands may only be used while not in insert mode.

Keys:

• w/W move 1/5 lines up
• s/S move 1/5 lines down
• a/A move 1/5 chars right
• d/D move 1/5 chars left
• e toggle insert mode
• i scroll up 5 lines
• k scroll down 5 lines
• I jump to line 1
• K jump to last line
• u unindent by two spaces
• o indent by two spaces
• j jump to col 1
• l jump to last col
• q quit if saved
• Q quit unconditionally (needs double-press)
• r jump to line N
• c/C copy 1 line/copy N lines
• x/X cut 1 line/cut N lines
• v paste contents of cut buffer, and clear it
• V paste contents of cut buffer
• m insert blank line (equivalent to 'Return')
• z remove last line of cut buffer
• Z clear cut buffer
• t save file
• T save file (always prompt for fname)