scopatz / xo

exofrills text editor

xo: the text editor without frills

You might be looking for help, but this is all I can do:

usage: xo [-h] path

exofrills: your text has been edited...but you are still hungry.

positional arguments:
  path        path to file, may include colon separated line and col numbers,
              eg 'path/to/xo.py:10:42'

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Someone else made a video tutorial and posted it on YouTube within an hour of the 0.1 release.

get xo

Install from the cheeese shop with pip or easy_install:

$ pip install exofrills

$ easy_install exofrills

Fork xo from github:

$ git clone https://github.com/scopatz/xo.git

key commands

esc

get help

ctrl + o

save file (write-out)

ctrl + x

exit (does not save)

meta + s

select pygments style

ctrl + f

insert file at current position

ctrl + y

go to line & column (yalla, let's bounce)

ctrl + n

name completion with Jedi (if installed)

ctrl + k

cuts the current line to the clipboard

ctrl + u

pastes the clipboard to the current line

ctrl + t

clears the clipboard (these spell K-U-T)

ctrl + w

set regular expression and jump to first match

meta + w

jump to next match of current regular expression

ctrl + r

set substitution for regular expression and replace first match

meta + r

replace next match of current regular expression