Tasks Text Editor - tianocorecn/tianocorecn.github.io GitHub Wiki
This task involves making several improvements for the standard shell text editor
- Being worked on by Suyu Yang for GSOC2011
- Difficulty: Medium
- Language: C
- Mentor:
- Suggested by: , ,
- Plenty of wasted screen space
- Unusual hot-keys
- Hot-keys are not usable over a serial/network terminal connection
- Support terminal widths as narrow as 60 columns
Building
- This project can be completed on any edk2 supported OS or toolchain.
- This project can be tested on any PI 1.2 system.
- OVMF, Nt32Pkg or UnixPkg could each provide friendly test environments.
Here is the current look of the UEFI Editor:
Row: 1 Col: 1 0 Lines Read |INS| <font style="color: yellow">F1</font> Go To Line <font style="color: yellow">F2</font> Save File <font style="color: yellow">F3</font> Exit <font style="color: yellow">F4</font> Search <font style="color: yellow">F5</font> Search/Replace <font style="color: yellow">F6</font> Cut Line <font style="color: yellow">F7</font> Paste Line <font style="color: yellow">F8</font> Open File <font style="color: yellow">F9</font> File Type </font>
1,1 Help: Ctrl-? </font>
Ctrl-? should popup a help box, something like this:
1,1 Help: Ctrl-? </font>
Another option might be to display help as if it were a text file:
Control Key Function Key Command
----------- ------------ -----------------
Ctrl-G F1 Go To Line
Ctrl-S F2 Save File
Ctrl-Q F3 Exit
Ctrl-F F4 Search
Ctrl-R F5 Search/Replace
Ctrl-K F6 Cut Line
Ctrl-U F7 Paste Line
Ctrl-O F8 Open File
Ctrl-T F9 File Type
Ctrl-W Close File
Use Ctrl-W to exit this help
1,1 Help: Ctrl-? </font>
Ctrl-F should ask for text to find on the bottom line:
Search for: UserEntersSearchTextHere </font>
Ctrl-R should ask for the seach/replace on the bottom line. First the search, then the replace text.
Replace with: UserEntersReplacementTextHere </font>