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Bachelor's Lackluster And Ruminantly Gnarled Homebrew Text Editor is a Nintendo DS homebrew app that will be able to edit text files.

It makes use of the HexInput style of on-screen keyboard input, and uses the "QUONG" layout, both made by Joe Strout (http://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html).

(Taken from the article by Joe Strout) In summary, three key ideas work together to make this input method better than a traditional on-screen keyboard:

1. You can input a letter by tapping it, or by dragging to it from a neighboring letter.
2. Letters are arranged in a hexagonal grid so that every one has six neighbors, and all neighbors are equally easy to reach.
3. Letters are arranged to optimize text input in a particular language (English, in this case).

Other Nintendo DS homebrew developers are encouraged to make use of the source code available so they can integrate HexInput and/or the QUONG keyboard layout in their homebrew software as well. Source code (as well as binary .nds file) can be downloaded as a zip archive from http://sharesource.org/project/blarghtexteditor/files/107/

7zip extractor software for windows can be found in http://www.7-zip.org/

(The part of the code that implements HexInput is in source/Underdog/Gui/HexGrid.cpp)

BLARGH Text Editor is also planned to be modified to become an offline wiki viewer/editor, similar to Tiddlywiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com).