📚 A text editor for extremism researchers, allowing for filtering of violent and sensitive text 💻

Blinkers is a simple UI based text editor that allows for filtering sensitive, violent, and radical content limiting the exposure to researchers.

Blinkers currently supports the following features:

• Open, Save, and Modify text files just as you'd expect from any text editor 📝
• Highlighting words in a file using Ctrl+P or by supplying a newline separated file. 🎨
• Change the saturation of non-highlighted text, limiting exposure 🙈

Installation and Running

Currently Blinkers requires Python to run, however, in the future will be bundled into an executable/ binary for Windows and Debian.

python3 blinkers.py

Usage

• Load a file - Opening a file can be done with Ctrl+O or by using the File menu. A new file can be created with Ctrl+N.
• Save a file - To save a file use Ctrl+S or use the File menu.
• Exit - To exit the application use the Ctrl+E or the File menu.
• Cut - To cut text in the application use the Ctrl+X or the Edit menu.
• Copy - To copy text in the application use the Ctrl+C or the Edit menu.
• Paste - To paste text in the application use the Ctrl+V or the Edit menu.
• Undo - To undo modifications in the application use the Ctrl+U or the Edit menu.
• Add filter file - A filter file is a new line separated text file where each line contains a word that should be highlighted in the text editor. To do this use Ctrl+F or the Edit menu.
• Remove filters - To remove all current filters/ highlights use Ctrl+R or the Edit menu.
• Add a string to the filter - To add a string to highlight use Ctrl+P or the Edit menu. if a filter file is open the new string will be appended to the bottom of the file.
• Remove string from the filter - To remove a string from highlighting text use Ctrl+B or the Edit menu. If a filter file is being used it will remove it from the file.
• Increase and Decrease colour saturation - The colour of non highlighted text can be modified with Alt+U and Alt+D or the Edit menu.

Thanks

The base text editor codebase can be found here. https://www.codespeedy.com/create-a-text-editor-in-python/