.Net/C# port of awesome antirez kilo text editor https://github.com/antirez/kilo. Based on another awesome implementation described in Build Your Own Text Editor. Works in Linux, MacOS and Windows terminals (sh, bash, zsh, cmd, powershell, etc.).

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Prerequisites

• .NET 10.0 or later

dotnet --version
# Expected output: 10.0.X

HOWTO: Install .NET 10 on Windows, Linux, and macOS

Windows

# run in elevated shell
winget install Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.10

Ubuntu

# Register Microsoft packages feed (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/packages)
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -rs)/packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

# installation
sudo apt update && sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-10.0

MacOS

brew install dotnet

See also

Install .NET on Windows, Linux, and macOS

Usage

git clone https://github.com/AndreyRusyaev/dotnet-kilo/
cd dotnet-kilo
dotnet run

Changes

• Basic unicode support
• Added support for Windows terminals (CMD, Powershell, WSL).
• Alternate screen mode support (XTERM 1049 mode)
• Abstracted VT100 sequences (see VT100.cs)

List of remarkable kilo ports/implementations

• kilo-tutorial (C) via Build Your Own Text Editor
• kiro-editor (Rust)
• kibi (Rust)
• hecto (Rust) via hecto: Build Your Own Text Editor in Rust
• gram (Zig)
• kilo.zig (Zig)
• kilo-in-go (Go)