Language/App: C on LINUX
Front End: ncurses library
Back End: C
Operating System: LINUX

ABNORA-X is a full screen text editor developed on a Linux platform. The text editor is programmed in C making use of the curses library provided by the curses package for the front end. The editor can be used only on Linux platform.

ABNORA - X has the following features:

1. File: Open existing /new file, Save , Save as, Exit
2. Edit: Delete line or word, insert line or word
3. Mode: Lock/Unlock Screen, Quit to Shell
4. Options: Foreground/Background color
5. Help: About, Hotkeys

A popular package available with LINUX is the Curses library that supports the screen-oriented input and output. Curses are a set of functions that manages an application display on character -cell terminals. The Curses library forms a wrapper over working with raw terminal codes and provides a highly flexible and efficient Application Programming Interface (API). It provides functions to move the cursor, create windows, produce colours, play with mouse etc. The application program need not worry about underlying terminal capabilities.

To use curses library functions a header file named curses.h must be included. To link the program with curses library the flag -lcurses should be added curses.h already includes stdio.h.


After compiling the source file a output file "a.out " is produced. The output file "a.out" is a default output file, however the output can be redirected to any file with required name. This output file can be run directly on the command prompt.