Cool! This other project of mine (1) is a more finished product and might be better for testing. It's a terminal periodic table with the same display principles as C-edit but should be less buggy. (1) https://github.com/velorek1/terminalperiodictable
I wasn't able to compile edge for some reason but it looks cool :). I'll try to do it again when I have some free time. Thank you for sharing your insights. I totally understand what you say about the dedication part, especially when it comes to projects becoming bigger and bigger through the years. It's hard to keep focused and not get overwhelmed at some point
I didn't know about this resource. Thank you for sharing. I had only seen this one https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
I did notice that all editors modeled after this tutorial tended to be clones. That's why I opted for a trial-and-error approach as a learning experience.
See also: EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html> from 1981, by Richard Stallman – the main author of Emacs – as a more Emacs-specific resource.
Or Theory and practice of text editors, or, A cookbook for an Emacs, the original thesis written by Craig A. Finseth in 1980 before he wrote the book I originally linked to: <https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15905>
Glad it compiled! Most of your suggestions are on my to-do list indeed. I wanted to maintain an animation to demonstrate that it could be kept running throughout all the different dialogs and listboxes. I'll probably end up changing it. Thank you for testing it. :)
I concede most physical terminals still alive will have some form of VT100 emulation (up to VT500-level, usually), but half the fun is to make something that can actually run on ancient hardware.
