v1.0.0

Features

• Completely Command line
• Modal editor i.e. editing in different modes which allows for faster editing
• Built using rust - Fast and robust application

Modal editing

Vim originally offers 4 modes for editing

1. Insert Mode
2. Command Mode
3. Visual Mode
4. Idle or Default

As of now, mini-vim supports 3 modes

Feature	Idle Mode	Insert Mode	Command Mode
How to begin	Default Mode	i, o or a	:
Navigation	h, j, k, l, w	N/A	N/A
Options	N/A	N/A	q:quit, w: write, wq: write and quit

Deletion

Currently, two types of delete are supported
x: remove one character in idle mode
dd: remove one complete line

External crates that I have used

• ratatui + crossterm: To create amazing Terminal User Interface
• clap: For easy and effective parsing of command line arguments
• anyhow: Easy error handling

Improvementss needed

This project is at very initial stage. It was only meant for learning purposes
and vim or neovim already provide these capabilities in much more elegant manner.

Some major missing features are: -

• Visual mode
• Execution of command multiple times using numbers in command
• Finding and searching
• Macros
• Scope for personalization / plugins
• Syntax highlighting / linting
• Tabs
• Keeping files saved in a buffer