Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It's built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, uses Gtk for its interface, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It's known to work on Linux, but should work on at least the *BSD's as well.
This fork is intended for personal use.
It is released as free software under the MIT See original repo here : Github.
wget: For auto-downloading build dependencies.GTK+: Version >= 3, with development files (e.g.libgtk-3-devon Debian based system).C compiler: Howl has a very small C core itself, and it embeds dependencies written in C.pkg-config: Helper tool to find libraries on the system.
Clone the repository or download and unpack a release. Cd into the src
directory, and run make && sudo make install. The installed binary will be
named howl.
| Action | Command | |
|---|---|---|
| Cursor Movement | left | 'cursor-left' |
| right | 'cursor-right' | |
| up | 'cursor-up' | |
| down | 'cursor-down' | |
| shift_left | 'cursor-left-extend' | |
| shift_right | 'cursor-right-extend' | |
| shift_up | 'cursor-up-extend' | |
| shift_down | 'cursor-down-extend' | |
| alt_up | 'editor-move-lines-up' | |
| alt_down | 'editor-move-lines-down' | |
| alt_left | 'editor-move-text-left' | |
| alt_right | 'editor-move-text-right' | |
| page_up | 'cursor-page-up' | |
| shift_page_up | 'cursor-page-up-extend' | |
| page_down | 'cursor-page-down' | |
| shift_page_down | 'cursor-page-down-extend' | |
| end | 'cursor-line-end' | |
| shift_end | 'cursor-line-end-extend' | |
| home | 'cursor-home' | |
| shift_home | 'cursor-home-extend' | |
| ctrl_home | 'cursor-start' | |
| ctrl_shift_home | 'cursor-start-extend' | |
| ctrl_end | 'cursor-eof' | |
| ctrl_shift_end | 'cursor-eof-extend' | |
| ctrl_left | 'cursor-word-left' | |
| ctrl_right | 'cursor-word-right-end' | |
| ctrl_up | 'editor-scroll-up' | |
| ctrl_down | 'editor-scroll-down' | |
| ctrl_shift_left | 'cursor-word-left-extend' | |
| ctrl_shift_right | 'cursor-word-right-end-extend' | |
| ctrl_shift_up | 'editor-scroll-up' | |
| ctrl_shift_down | 'editor-scroll-down' | |
| Text Editing | tab | 'editor-smart-tab' |
| shift_tab | 'editor-smart-back-tab' | |
| backspace | 'editor-delete-back' | |
| shift_backspace | 'editor-delete-back' | |
| ctrl_backspace | 'editor-delete-back-word' | |
| delete | 'editor-delete-forward' | |
| ctrl_delete | 'editor-delete-forward-word' | |
| return | 'editor-newline' | |
| ctrl_return | 'editor-newline-below' | |
| ctrl_shift_return | 'editor-newline-above' | |
| ctrl_k | 'editor-delete-to-end-of-line' | |
| ctrl_shift_k | 'editor-delete-line' | |
| ctrl_i | 'editor-indent' | |
| ctrl_shift_i | 'editor-indent-all' | |
| ctrl_h | 'buffer-replace' | |
| ctrl_s | 'save' | |
| ctrl_shift_s | 'save-as' | |
| ctrl_v | 'editor-paste' | |
| ctrl_shift_v | 'editor-paste..' | |
| ctrl_x | 'editor-cut' | |
| ctrl_z | 'editor-undo' | |
| ctrl_y | 'editor-redo' | |
| ctrl_slash | 'editor-toggle-comment' | |
| ctrl_space | 'editor-complete' | |
| ctrl_tab | 'view-next' | |
| shift_delete | 'editor-cut' | |
| shift_insert | 'editor-paste' | |
| ctrl_insert | 'editor-copy' | |
| ctrl_a | 'editor-select-all' | |
| Buffer & File Management | ctrl_b | 'switch-buffer' |
| ctrl_c | 'editor-copy' | |
| ctrl_d | 'editor-duplicate-current' | |
| ctrl_f | 'buffer-search-forward' | |
| ctrl_r | 'buffer-search-backward' | |
| ctrl_comma | 'buffer-search-word-backward' | |
| ctrl_period | 'buffer-search-word-forward' | |
| ctrl_g | 'buffer-grep' | |
| ctrl_w | 'buffer-close' | |
| ctrl_n | 'new-buffer' | |
| alt_s | 'buffer-structure' | |
| alt_q | 'editor-reflow-paragraph' | |
| Project Management | ctrl_o | 'open' |
| ctrl_shift_o | 'open-recent' | |
| ctrl_p | 'project-open' | |
| ctrl_shift_r | 'exec' | |
| ctrl_alt_r | 'project-exec' | |
| ctrl_shift_b | 'project-build' | |
| Window & View | ctrl_shift_w | 'view-close' |
| ctrl_- | 'zoom-out' | |
| ctrl_+ | 'zoom-in' | |
| f11 | 'window-toggle-fullscreen' | |
| alt_x | 'run' | |
| alt_j | 'open-journal' | |
| shift_alt_left | 'view-left-or-create' | |
| shift_alt_right | 'view-right-or-create' | |
| shift_alt_up | 'view-up-or-create' | |
| shift_alt_down | 'view-down-or-create' | |
| Navigation | ctrl_< | 'navigate-back' |
| ctrl_> | 'navigate-forward' | |
| alt_< | 'navigate-go-to' | |
| alt_g | 'cursor-goto-line' | |
| Version Control | ctrl_shift_d | 'vc-diff-file' |
| ctrl_alt_d | 'vc-diff' |
This fork is released under the MIT license (see the LICENSE.md file for the full details).