This project adds Discord rich presence support to the J.O.E text editor. This started as a personal project, and the code was too poor to publish, however I revisited it after a while and heavily improved the code, and its features. For those of you who don't know, JOE is a pretty underrated text editor, and is one that I use all the time for basic text editing. It's a pretty good Emacs substitute.
When built, two executables are created. joel.exe (joe launcher) and joerpc.exe, both of which should be moved to the same directory as the joe.exe executable. The former executable simply launches joe.exe together with joerpc.exe assuming an instance isn't already running. The latter is the actual program that monitors for any running instances of joe.exe and scans the active file, and updates Discord with a rich presence matching the file. You can run joerpc.exe once separately, as it remains open and will continue monitoring for changes.
Arguments passed to joel.exe are passed to joe.exe however there are some cases where doing so can cause a segfault for unknown reasons. For instance: joel ..\.gitignore will cause it to segfault.
joel.exe Is simply a convenience, so that when you know you have no running instance of joerpc.exe but you want to open a new Joe buffer, you can do both at once by opening said buffer via joel.exe unstead of joe.exe.
By default, only joerpc.exe is built when running make. To build joel.exe either do make all or make builds/joel.exe to built both/it. That's it! The binaries provided are built with Clang on Windows, how other compilers react to this code is unknown to me. You may also have to edit the makefile if you're integrating it into a different project structure.
I thought I should summarize how joerpc.exe gets the information that it does from joe.exe which is by reading its process memory. A while ago when reverse engineering joe.exe I found that the module address of joewin.dll + 0xCBA08 = The start address of a c-string containing the active file. I then used the Windows API to offset the address one byte at a time to read the string. The code is under joerpc.cxx if you want more details.
Bundled with the repository comes two (MIT open source) libraries necessary for communicating with Discord, one of which is actually a dependancy of the other library. You can find the respective libraries here if you wish.
