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med
- Med: Micro Emacs in D
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A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor written in C, and Lua
Here's another one with a very small footprint:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
It's the one I use every day. The executable on Windows is a little over a meg. It also works on Linux and Mac.
- A case against syntax highlighting
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I Still Use Plain Text for Everything.
I fixed my editor so that it recognizes URLs, and underlines them. Clicking on one brings up a browser on that site. I should have done that 20 years ago.
No special syntax is required. It just works. I've since been adding URLs in comments all over my code, for references. It's marvelous.
It could be extended to recognize filename.jpg and filename.mp3 to display or play those files, too. Again with no special syntax whatsoever. It just works.
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
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The Lost Apps of the 80s
I still use microEmacs, which floated around the intertoobs in the 1980s. Of course, I've modified it substantially over the years, most recently adding color syntax highlighting and Unicode.
D version:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
C version:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/me
The "extension language" is it's so easy to just add some code and recompile it, there's no point in adding an extension language.
I like microEmacs a lot because I can use it remotely over a tty interface.
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Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
Doing one yourself is fun. MicroEmacs drifted around NNTP in the 80s, and I snagged a copy and began modifying it to taste. I've been using it ever since. The latest version was ported to D:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
It's a very easy editor to understand and extend.
almost-mono-themes
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A case against syntax highlighting
For emacs, I recommend the 'almost-mono-themes' package [0]. It supports syntax highlighting without making your editor look like Mardi Gras.
[0]: https://github.com/cryon/almost-mono-themes
What are some alternatives?
Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
color-identifiers-mode - Emacs minor mode to highlight each source code identifier uniquely based on its name
libui-ng - libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation"
ledger - Double-entry accounting system with a command-line reporting interface
lite-xl-plugin-manager - A lite-xl plugin manager.
lite-xl-ide - A set of plugins to convert lite-xl into a proper IDE.
FluidFramework - Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
SublimeDebugger - Graphical Debugger for Sublime Text for debuggers that support the debug adapter protocol
gap - MIRRORED from Savannah. Pull requests CANNOT be accepted. Please reach out to us over mailing lists.
lite-xl-simplified - Lite XL with a simplified build process and file structure.
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