kilocat

November 23, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

A port of Salvatore Sanfilippo's kilo to Umka + catcurses. Based on the Snaptoken tutorial by Paige Ruten.

kilocat rendering its own source code

Besides syntax highlighting in multiline comments breaking down if you so much as look at them wrong... it's faithful enough to the tutorial.

Building

Requires UmBox.

Run umbox update and umbox run.

License

This project is dedicated to the public domain. Partly because I want to forget about it, lol.

Contents

  1. 1Building
  2. 2License