APNA-CODE-EDITOR

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Introduction

The project Apna-Code-Editor aims to build a fully-functional code editor developed natively for Python programming
using Python3 programming language. A code editor should have the following functionalities:

• Code writing capabilities
• Open previously configured code
• Syntax highlighting
• Autocompletion and hints
• Save newly developed code
• Execute saved codes and show corresponding output.

Project Apna-Code-Editor is a native python3-built software that tries to achieve the above mentioned functionalities of
an ideal text-editor.

Features

As of now, the project has following functionalities:

• Open saved files
• Save new files
• Save changes to already changed files
• Run python programs
• Cut, Copy, Paste functionalities
• Toggle between Light and Dark theme

Get Started

Step 1: Open a terminal/git bash
Step 2: Run the following command

[user@desktop local/path] $ git clone https://github.com/Kunal-Kumar-Sahoo/Apna-Code-Editor.git

Step 3: If you are using any Linux-based distro or macOS, you would need to install Tkinter

• Debian-based distros:

  [user@desktop local/path] $ sudo apt update
  [user@desktop local/path] $ sudo apt install python3-tk

• Arch-based distros:

  [user@desktop local/path] $ sudo pacman -Sy
  [user@desktop local/path] $ sudo pacman -S tk 

• RHEL-based distros:

  [user@desktop local/path] $ sudo dnf update
  [user@desktop local/path] $ sudo dnf install python3-tkinter 

• macOS:

  user@desktop local/path % pip3 install tk

Step 4: Now run the program

user@desktop local/path $ python3 src/main.py

How to contribute?

• Checkout the existing code base and try to find existing bugs or new features that can be added.

• Go to the Issues tab, and check for existing issues or add new issues

• Refer to CONTRIBUTING.md