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3.4 | 9.9 | |
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D | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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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.
helix
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Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction
Nice post. Obligatory Helix plug: For anyone interested in taking this further, there are whole editors designed around multi-cursor editing.
https://helix-editor.com/
- Helix: Post-modern and modal text editor
- Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
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:syntax off (2016)
I could never turn it off completely but I do sometimes use the Acme theme during the day (it's too bright in the evening), which highlights just comments, strings, and errors.
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Themes#acme
- Helix - Front-End Power
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Lapce
You can use a snippet LSP to work around Helix not having a built-in LSP manager. They're listed in https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/395
- Helix: GUI
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Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python
I'm probably not the average python programmer.
But I normally just create two terminals (I have a tiling window manager) and in one I open a python file under /tmp/ write my code and execute it in the other terminal.
I would probably use a REPL if it was integrated in my favorite editor ( https://helix-editor.com ).
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Neovide – a simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
Wow, that's been there a while: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/35c974c9c49f912...
Wonder how I missed that. I'm getting a re-education in helix today -- thank you! I'll go through `hx --tutor` again before I insert any more feet in my mouth.
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Zed is now open source
Interesting to see how they are gonna approach integrating plugins/extensions system, because this is likely gonna be one of the major factors affecting adoption and ecosystem growth.
Helix devs, for instance, lean towards a Scheme-like implementation. [1]
[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...
What are some alternatives?
Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
kakoune - mawww's experiment for a better code editor
libui-ng - libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation"
lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
ledger - Double-entry accounting system with a command-line reporting interface
neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
lite-xl-plugin-manager - A lite-xl plugin manager.
micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
lite-xl-ide - A set of plugins to convert lite-xl into a proper IDE.
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
FluidFramework - Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
copilot.vim - Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot