TkEditor

TkEditor is a modern, production-ready Tkinter text editor with autosave recovery, encoding support, and configurable UI preferences.

Features

• New, Open, Save, Save As with atomic writes
• Unsaved-change detection with clear prompts
• Undo/Redo, Cut/Copy/Paste, Select All
• Find & Replace with regex support and highlighting
• Live line/column status
• Cross-platform shortcuts (Ctrl/Cmd)
• UTF-8 default with BOM detection; encoding selection on Save As
• Encoding save dialog now presents a dropdown of common encodings and validates the choice
• All windows/dialogs start centered on the current monitor
• Autosave with recovery on next launch
• Light/Dark theme and font customization, persisted settings
• Recent files list
• Rotating file logging for debug mode

Install

python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

python -m pip install -e .

Run

python -m tkeditor

Development

python -m pip install -e .[dev]
pre-commit install

Tests

python -m pytest

Lint and Type Check

python -m ruff check .
python -m isort --check-only .
python -m black --check .
python -m mypy tkeditor

Build (PyInstaller)

make pyinstaller

Screenshots

• Placeholder: light theme
• Placeholder: dark theme

Configuration

Settings are stored in a JSON file under the OS-specific user config directory. You can override the location by setting the TKEDITOR_CONFIG_DIR environment variable.