lynx
A basic text editor in Rust. (by henryboisdequin)
sapling
A highly experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text. (by kneasle)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
lynx
Posts with mentions or reviews of lynx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-17.
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Weekly Update #2 - 17th Jan 2021
henryboisdequin / lynx
sapling
Posts with mentions or reviews of sapling.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-04.
- Sapling: A highly experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text
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Emacs Is Not Enough
Basically, when you say 'structural editing', do you mean making an AST for every kind of input and having a modal command language that permits traversal and editing of that AST. Like what sapling https://github.com/kneasle/sapling is attempting to do ?
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Why are we storing source code in plaintext?
For example, you can edit the AST directly: https://github.com/kneasle/sapling
- Sapling livestream
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Rust coding livestream - building Sapling, a better code editor
Livestream link here: https://youtu.be/dJtLEGOFYC0 Code here: https://github.com/kneasle/sapling
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Show HN: Experimental Semantic Code Explorer
There's a text editor being developed that edits code based on nodes of its AST representation - https://github.com/kneasle/sapling
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lynx and sapling you can also consider the following projects:
git-cli - A git CLI tool which can initialize a repository, add files, and commit files.
rustpad - Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required
ox - An independent Rust text editor that runs in your terminal!
silver_editor - A small editor for quicksilver and Mergui