A kakoune GUI made in electron.
It's currently only a Proof Of Concept repository. In these very early stages of development expect to see weird/breaking stuffs.
Electron has a reputation of being "bloated" and "eating all RAM". So what would be the benefit over the native ncurses UI of kakoune which already works very well?
The goal of this project is more to serve as a platform to experiment with new UI paradigms, in regards of the modal and multi-selections nature of kakoune.
So the first milestone is to be able to mimic the current terminal layout. Then, in another branch probably, the second step will be to try new ideas taking inspiration on what's being done by neovim's frontends or more featured IDE like VsCode.
npm i && npm run build
npm start
npm dev: DevTools will be automatically opened at startup.
At the moment the implementation is very naïve, but it works surprisingly nice enough.
A kak child process is spawned by node and the communication is established through the
JSON-RPC api.
On the rendering side, the drawing of the various elements is done with a bunch of <canvas> elements.
An alternative renderer is made with react.