redit

A simple text editor written in rust.

Redit opened in Windows and Linux (WSL) showing the Dracula theme (separate) and the default Solarized dark theme.

Features

• Terminal listens to resize events
• Page Up/Down, Home/End, Arrow, and Ctrl-Arrow key navigation
• Select text with Shift
• Multiple file buffers
• Copy and Paste (not yet using system clipboard)
• Highlight selected text
• Syntax highlighting
• Mouse support (dependent on terminal emulator)
• Undo and redo history
• Command palette
• Sublime Themes (.tmTheme) in themes subfolder of config directory
• Sublime syntaxes (.sublime-syntax) in syntaxes subfolder of config directory

In-Progress

Roughly listed in order of priority:

• Directory opening (medium)
• Search (hard)
• Better Ctrl-Arrow key navigation (medium)
• Ask to reload file when changed on disk (hard)
• Copy and paste using system clipboard

Key-Bindings

• Ctrl-q - quits the current editor (or program when in last editor)
• Ctrl-r - reloads the current file from disk
• Ctrl-s - saves the currently open file (or asks where to save new file)
• Ctrl-o - opens a file
• Ctrl-e - opens the command palette
• Ctrl-c, Ctrl-x, Ctrl-v - copy, cut, and paste respectively (works across editor buffers)
• Ctrl-p or Ctrl-n - switch to the previous or next editor respectively
• Ctrl-b - creates a new editor
• Home or End - moves to the beginning or end of the current line
• PageUp or PageDown - moves (up to) one screen height up or down
• Backspace or Delete - deletes the character directly behind or in front of the cursor
• Enter - creates a line break by copying the line break at the end of the current line
• Escape - exits the command palette if active
• Anything other than characters is currently ignored (note: doesn't even refresh editor)

Command Palette

The following commands are implemented:

• save [file_path] - Saves the current file as file_path
• open [file_path] - Opens file_path in the current editor (gracefully asks to discard changes)
• reload - Reloads the current file from disk (gracefully asks to discard changes)
• quit - Closes the current editor (gracefully asks to discard changes) or closes program on last editor quit

Customization

The config folder is ~/.config/redit. Supported settings are in [config_folder]/settings.toml with the following keys:

• theme = "Solarized (light)" (pulls from a default list of themes and any in the themes subfolder)