Pubat

Pubat is my own tui version of bat but only for file viewing.

History

I was working on Pude text editor and pubat was previously was a text editor. I failed to make a real text editor due to many complexities so I ended up giving final touch to the project and made it shift into a file viewer.

Yes, In this project I used ai as I was learning rust via making this project so use of ai was either only for complex task or for learning new topics like Ropes, textwrap etc.

Selling point.

Well I dont know that this will be what you like because pubat uses :

1. Ropes data structure (via Ropey crate) to load file in one go.

2. Uses Ratatui to draw a alternate tui i.e it it never prints to your terminal screen

3. Uses textwrap crate to display NoHyphenation ascii space text wrapping like Helix.

4. Crossterm for Up/Down/<C-q> keys.

5. Displays line numbers that respect wrapping.

6. Uses Syntect crate for smart extension guided bat like highlighting.

7. Uses shellexpand to expand your path variables.

8. Scrolls one line up and down and never remembers your last cursor position as it dont have any cursor at all.

9. Displays a file well in Tokyonight moon theme sometimes better than bat or cat.

How to download

This shell command will find you shell and append the Path variable to your shell. This is a safe independent of any shell script.

cargo install pubat