Xi-editor Alternatives

xi-editor reviews and mentions

• Zed is now open source
  26 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024

  Was confused until I realised I'd confused Zed, with Xi[1] which is also rust based, and which incidentally has a frontend called "Xim"..

  Also there's a wiki-editor (like Tomboy[2]) called "Zim"[3].

  [1] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor

• Text Editor: Data Structures
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023

  Project site linked from the GitHub[0] is https://xi-editor.io. Linked doc is a mirror of this[1], which was afaik originally written by Raph Linus.

  [0]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor

  [1]: https://xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_01.html

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023

  > thing that gets deleted when you hit backspace

  Is there a canonical source for this part, by the way? Xi copied the logic from Android[1] (as per the issue you linked downthread), and I vaguely remember that CLDR had something to say about this too, but I don’t know if there’s any sort of consensus here that’s actually written down anywhere.

  [1] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/pull/837

• Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jul 2023
• What's is a rusty way to implement sharable trees?
  4 projects | /r/rust | 17 Apr 2023

  This is pretty much how copy-on-write ropes work. Check out xi-rope, Ropey or crop, they're all built using B-trees and implement the behavior you described.

• Helix (a Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor) 23.03
  5 projects | /r/linux | 3 Apr 2023

  Helix is awesome, though once Lapce (spiritual successor to Xi editor) gets the Helix/Kakoune editing model, I may have to jump ship

• Editors written in rust
  10 projects | /r/rust | 25 Mar 2023

  Home (xi-editor.io)

• How to share resources between instances of program?
  1 project | /r/rust | 26 Feb 2023

  Maybe take a look at the Xi editor (https://xi-editor.io/) (written in rust I think) that uses a client server architecture.

• Suitable Rust GUI Library for Code Editor?
  8 projects | /r/rust | 3 Dec 2022

  Have a look at what Lapce uses. The editor is coming along nicely, and iirc, they use the Xi editor as a plug-in.

• CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed's DNA
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2022

  Raph Levien posted a retrospective about using CRDT’s for collaborative editing in xi-editor here [1]. His conclusion is

  “I come to the conclusion that the CRDT is not pulling its (considerable) weight. When I think about a future evolution of xi-editor, I see a much brighter future with a simpler, largely synchronous model, that still of course has enough revision tracking to get good results with asynchronous peers like the language server.”

  [1]https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomm...

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