Tak is a text editor

USAGE

tak <file>

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

There are two kinds of modifiers. Control (C-) and Meta (M-). Meta is usually the Alt key, provided your terminal is sane. If your terminal is not sane, try Escape, then the shortcut key.

M-q        Quit
M-s        Save file
C-z        Undo
C-k        Kill (delete) current line

movement:

arrows              move around lines and rows
PgUp/PgDn           move up/down by a screen
Home                beginning of line
End                 end of line
C-arrow-l/r         move back or forwards by word (M-arrow-l/r also work)
C-arrow-u/d         move up or down one paragraph (separated by blank lines)
                        (M-arrow-u/d also work)
M-S-g               goto line

copy/paste:

C-space    Begin selecting
C-g        Cancel selecting
C-x        Cut
C-c        Copy
C-v        Paste

Use C-space to begin a "region". Then use C-c to cut that region or C-c to copy it. Use C-v to paste at current insertion point.

The clipboard is saved to disk on quit, so when you reopen tak, the last copied text will be available to paste.

searching:

C-s        Start searching

When searching, type a string to search for it in the file. Use C-s again to search for the next occurence. Any non-character key will quit searching.

other:

Tak uses utf-8 terminal routines. If your terminal is not utf-8 (unicode) aware, strange things might happen.

If this appears to be a marshmallow flipping a table over, your terminal should be fine:

  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻