Plaintext

Plaintext is an outerframe text editor. It serves a macOS content bundle from a small backend and opens files via:

/?file=/path/to/file.txt

Deploy Over SSH

With a current Outer Shell installed on the target:

./app target "ssh -p 22 you@server"
./app deploy

The deploy target is stored in the gitignored target.env. Deployment detects the target architecture and libc and builds only the matching dynamic backend. glibc builds use the manylinux2014 (glibc 2.17) baseline; musl builds use musllinux 1.2. Run ./app build-matrix to build all four Linux release variants, or ./app help for the other development commands.

Build and Run

./build_run.sh

The development server listens on http://127.0.0.1:7355/ by default. For Unix socket testing:

SOCKET_PATH="$(getconf DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR)org.outershell.Plaintext"
./build/macos/Release/PlaintextBackend \
  --socket-path "$SOCKET_PATH" \
  --bundles-dir ./build/run/bundles

Open the socket URL from Outer Shell or Outerframe with a file query. Plaintext is registered as an opener for public.text when it is installed through Outer Shell. Opener URLs use ?file={file}, where outershelld replaces {file} with the percent-encoded path.