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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 19fa143..c699e81 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ -# Plain text with lines +# An editor for plain text. + +Not very useful by itself, but it's a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html) +that you can take in other directions besides line drawings, while easily +sharing patches between forks. -An editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. Designed above all to be easy to modify and give you early warning if your modifications break something. -http://akkartik.name/lines.html - ## Getting started Install [LÖVE](https://love2d.org). It's just a 5MB download, open-source and @@ -17,13 +18,13 @@ optionally with a file path to edit. Alternatively, turn it into a .love file you can double-click on: ``` -$ zip -r /tmp/lines.love *.lua +$ zip -r /tmp/text.love *.lua ``` -By default, lines.love reads/writes the file `lines.txt` in a directory +By default, it reads/writes the file `lines.txt` in a directory specific to this app (https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.getSourceBaseDirectory). -To open a different file, drop it on the lines.love window. +To open a different file, drop it on the app window. ## Keyboard shortcuts @@ -35,12 +36,7 @@ While editing text: * `alt+right`/`alt+left` to jump to the next/previous word, respectively * mouse drag or `shift` + movement to select text, `ctrl+a` to select all -For shortcuts while editing drawings, consult the online help. Either: -* hover on a drawing and hit `ctrl+h`, or -* click on a drawing to start a stroke and then press and hold `h` to see your - options at any point during a stroke. - -lines.love has been exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If +Exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact @@ -51,71 +47,47 @@ found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact * No support yet for right-to-left languages. * Undo/redo may be sluggish in large files. Large files may grow sluggish in - other ways. lines.love works well in all circumstances with files under - 50KB. + other ways. Works well in all circumstances with files under 50KB. * If you kill the process, say by force-quitting because things things get sluggish, you can lose data. -* The text cursor will always stay on the screen. This can have some strange - implications: - - * A long series of drawings will get silently skipped when you hit - page-down, until a line of text can be showed on screen. - * If there's no line of text at the top of the file, you may not be able - to scroll back up to the top with page-up. - - So far this app isn't really designed for drawing-heavy files. For now I'm - targeting mostly-text files with a few drawings mixed in. - -* No clipping yet for drawings. In particular, circles/squares/rectangles and - point labels can overflow a drawing. - * Long wrapping lines can't yet distinguish between the cursor at end of one screen line and start of the next, so clicking the mouse to position the cursor can very occasionally do the wrong thing. -* Touchpads can drag the mouse pointer using a light touch or a heavy click. - On Linux, drags using the light touch get interrupted when a key is pressed. - You'll have to press down to drag. - * Can't scroll while selecting text with mouse. * No scrollbars yet. That stuff is hard. ## Mirrors and Forks -Updates to lines.love can be downloaded from the following mirrors in addition -to the website above: -* https://github.com/akkartik/lines.love -* https://repo.or.cz/lines.love.git -* https://tildegit.org/akkartik/lines.love -* https://git.tilde.institute/akkartik/lines.love -* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines.love -* https://notabug.org/akkartik/lines.love -* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines.love -* https://pagure.io/lines.love - -Forks of lines.love are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it -here. - -* https://github.com/akkartik/lines-polygon-experiment -- an experiment that - uses separate shortcuts for regular polygons. `ctrl+3` for triangles, - `ctrl+4` for squares, etc. -* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/text.love -- a stripped down version without - drawings; useful starting point for some forks -* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/pensieve.love -- a note-taking app on an - infinite 2D surface. Still in development. -* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/capture.love -- a blank-slate mode for the - note-taking app, so all the stuff pensieve.love puts on screen doesn't cause - you to forget what you came to write down. - -## Associated tools - -* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines2md exports lines.love files to Markdown - and (non-editable) SVG. -* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines2html.love exports lines.love files to html - and inline SVG. +This repo is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), an +editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. +Updates to it can be downloaded from the following mirrors: + +* https://repo.or.cz/text.love.git +* https://tildegit.org/akkartik/text.love +* https://git.tilde.institute/akkartik/text.love +* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/text.love +* https://github.com/akkartik/text.love +* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/text.love +* https://notabug.org/akkartik/text.love +* https://pagure.io/text.love + +Further forks are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it here. + +* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/view.love -- a stripped down version without + support for modifying files; useful starting point for some forks. +* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/pong.love -- a fairly minimal example app that + can edit and debug its own source code. +* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/template-live-editor -- a template for + building "free-wheeling" live programs (easy to fork, can be modified as + they run), with a text editor primitive. +* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/luaML.love -- a free-wheeling 'browser' for a + Lua-based markup language built as a live program. +* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love -- a programming environment for + modifying free-wheeling programs while they run. ## Feedback |