Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. For example, the short-cut to copy the current selection is Control-C, and to paste the previously copied text the short-cut Control-V can be used. As another example, the File menu can be accessed by pressing Meta-F.
For more information, see the homepage
The easiest way to install Tilde is by using the repositories from the Tilde homepage download section. If there are no binary packages provided for your distribution or hardware, you can still build Tilde from the official releases provided there. Be aware that Tilde depends on several support libraries, which are also provided through the Tilde homepage.
Building from the official release is recommended over attempting to build from the git repositories for installing Tilde. Only for development of Tilde should the git repositories be used.
There are several ways to get help, should you have problems using, installing or building Tilde:
To help developing Tilde, you will need to build Tilde from the git repositories. The repositories assume that all parts of Tilde, i.e. Tilde itself and its support libraries, are built from the git repositories. Please follow the steps below to build Tilde from the git repositories:
for i in makesys transcript t3shared t3window t3widget t3key t3config t3highlight tilde ; do
git clone https://github.com/gphalkes/$i.git
done
./t3shared/doall --skip-non-source --stop-on-error make -C src
Once the build is complete, tilde/src/.objects/edit
is the newly compiled
tilde. If the termdebug suite of tools
is installed, then tilde/src/tedit
can be used to run the editor while
recording the input and output for debugging purposes.