Text Trix

The Text Trix editor is an open-source, cross-platform text editor whose goal is to make file and text navigation easier for coding and general editing. A central design philosophy is to simplify text editing without making hidden or unexpected changes to your text.

Text Trix started out as a homegrown project, originally at SourceForge and ported here in August 2017.

Features

• Tabbed files and group tabbing
• Syntax highlighter and spell-checker
• Develop and install your own simple plugins
• Quick find by word or line
• Line bookmarks for navigating within files
• Simplified Vi/Emacs-style shortcuts options
• Tab/space/mixed auto-indent
• Detect and preserve line endings
• Cross-platform, open-source, and completely free

Run

• Binaries available in releases
• Launch TextTrix.jar
• run.bat batch script provided to use for shortcuts on Windows

Compile

Dependencies

• Java 8+ (tested on Java 8-13)
• JSyntaxPaneTTx, which requires Maven
• OsterTTx

Build

# place Text Trix and all dependencies in the same folder
mkdir ttx
cd ttx
git clone https://github.com/yoda-vid/texttrix.git
git clone https://github.com/yoda-vid/jsyntaxpanettx.git
git clone https://github.com/yoda-vid/osterttx.git

# build Text Trix and all of its dependencies
texttrix/build.sh --jsyn --oster

# run Text Trix
texttrix/run.sh

To package the file for portability:

texttrix/pkg.sh

Plugins

The PlugIn class provides a simple API for direct text manipulation. PlugInWindow allows access through a simple GUI dialog window.

Get plugins

Plugin repos are collected in the plugin-texttrix topic on GitHub. We recommend adding the Search plugin for Find/Replace functionality.

To start adding plugins, create a plugins folder in your main folder (alongside texttrix) and clone in a plugin repo:

# assumed to be in the folder containing texttrix
mkdir plugins
git clone https://github.com/yoda-vid/ttx_search.git
mv ttx_search.git plugins
texttrix/build.sh --plug

The resulting plugin JAR will be placed in texttrix/plugins/ttx_your_plugin.jar, which will be loaded automatically by Text Trix at runtime.

Writing a plugin

We're in the process of updating the documentation, but the old one is here.