Vis a Highly Efficient Vim Like Text Editor
Inspired by the excellent Project Oberon I recently wrote a highly efficient, vim like text editor, called vis. Its core features include:
- Unicode aware
- binary clean
- handle arbitrary files (especially large ones)
- unlimited undo/redo support
- syntax highlighting
- regex search (and replace)
- multiple file/window support
- extensible and configurable through its source code (header file)
Check out the README and
the resulting discussion on the suckless mailing list.
Designing a text editor presents some interesting challenges and design decision.
Most importantly it is a lot of fun.
Comments (2)
Colour Highlighting
I think CSS-like selectors would be interesting, and more elegant than the current regexp - colour pairs. One application of cascading is that we can have syntax inside comments and #if 0 branches. Normal syntax colours can be faded by the (possibly background) comment colour. Another application is user-defined style sheet for colour customization, rather than hand-editing config.def.h and recompiling :) I know, this has no priority. Just some thoughts.
You are wrong anonymous Coward
The though about recompiling is, to don't bloat the software, everytime you wanted a parser for a config file it make the application where big and also it's not failureproof.. This tool handles it like every suckless tool ;) So don't break the habbit :D
