texteditor

Terminal text editor written in Ocaml.

Before we begin, we need to make sure that Oasis and Rope, Lterm, and Lwt are installed. These can all be installed with opam with the following commands:

• opam install oasis
• opam install rope
• opam install lambda-term
• opam install lwt

Compilation and Running CamlCode

In order to compile and run this project, make sure that you are in the texteditor directory. Then, you can run our test cases by typing [make test]. In order to compile the code, you can type [make compile]. After you edit any of the project files, in order to see these changes in CamlCode, you MUST type [make compile] before running the program. In order to run the program, you can type [make view]. This will bring you to our welcome page.

Here is a list of all the default commands and keyboard bindings that are included in CamlCode:

Keyboard Bindings

• F2: opens the in-editor command prompt.
• F3: switch between command prompt and editing area
• Ctrl + S: save current file
• Shift + Left/Right: Highlight
• Ctrl + C: copy highlighted text
• Ctrl + V: paste at cursor location
• Ctrl + Z: undo last action
• Ctrl + Y: redo last action
• Ctrl + W: close current file
• Ctrl + X: cut highlighted text
• Ctrl + Left/Right: tab left/right, respectively.

Command Prompt Commands

• "find ": searches file for .
• "replace ": searches file for and replaces the first instance with
• "replace_all ": replace all instances of in the file with .
• "open <file_path>": opens the file at the given file path in the text editor.
• "new <file_path>": creates a new file at the relative file path given and opens it in CamlCode.
• "cd <file_path>": allows you to move within the file system, similar to UNIX
• "pwd": prints out the current working directory