moe

A command line based editor inspired by vi/vim written in Nim.

This project's goal is a very customizable, high productivity, user friendly, high performance and funny animation editor.

Features

• Written in Nim

• Adopt GapBuffer

• UTF-8 and other encodings support (Incomplete)

• Vim like mode (Normal, Insert, Visual, Replace, Ex, Filer)

• Vim like keybinds

• Infinite undo/redo

• Syntax highlighting (Nim, C, C++, C#, Java, Yaml, JavaScript, Python)

• Auto-complete

• Configuration file (TOML)

• Configuration mode

• Live reload of the configuration file

• Vertical/Horizontal split window

• Tab line

• Simple file manager

• Indentation lines

• Auto close/delete paren

• Simple auto indent

• Incremental search

• Auto save

• Suggestions in ex mode

• VSCode themes

• Build on save

• Multiple status line

• QuickRun

• Automatic backups

• Highlight current words

• Highlight/Delete trailing spaces

• Vim like register

Planned features

• Supports regular expression and PEG

• Supports EditorConfig

• Window management

• Syntax checker

• Snippets

• Spell checker

• Macros

• Terminal

• Git support

• Select data structures

• Edit files over ssh

• Language Server Protocol

• Fuzzy search

• Plugins

• Supports huge file

• Funny animation...

Install

Requires

• Nim 1.6.2 or higher

• ncurses

• xclip v0.13 or higher (Option on GNU/Linux)

• xsel (Option on GNU/Linux)

# Latest released version
nimble install moe
# Latest developmental state inside Github repository
nimble install moe@#head

Check detail

Usage

Documents

The origin of the name

moe is a recursive acronym for "moe is an optimal editor".
And one more, it comes from the Japanese slang 萌え(moe).

Contributing, bug reports, feature request

Welcome❤

Community

Ask me anything!

• Discord

License

GNU General Public License version 3