Lean and fast Markdown editor for Android and Linux.
The primary aim is to make a fast editor for Android that's exactly the way I like it to be. Since it's written in Python, it's cross platform by nature and will run on Linux too. However, if there's ever a conflict between the two, Android will take precedence.
Does the world need another editor? Definitely not. What I do believe, though, is that I need another editor for Android. I've tried a dusin and can't be bothered anymore. They're all either too slow to open for quick edits, are too bloated or don't store the files in plain text. And if they do, they don't have Markdown syntax highlighting.
What I want is what I've listed under the "Minimum lovable product" below.
- ✅ Large text area.
- ✅ Load fast
- ✅ Read file from disk
- ✅ Save
- ✅ Auto save every
<n>seconds - ✅ Undo
- ✅ Markdown support
- ✅ Open file
- 🆕 Save as
- 🆕 Run on Android
- 🆕 Easy to use with standard Android keyboards like Gboard.
- ✅ Runs on Linux
- ✅ Open file from the command line with
edward.py <file>
- 🆕 Full Unicode support
- 🆕 Emacs shortcuts on Linux
- 🆕 Show r/o state of file
- 🆕 Search for text
- 🆕 Configurable with
~/.edward.conf
- Version control
- File upload, be that FTP, SSH/SCP, rsync
First, you need to have pipenv and make installed. On Arch Linux
you can install these with:
# pacman -S core/make
# pacman -S extra/python-pipenv
Then, get the source code and install the dependencies in a virtual environment:
$ git clone https://github.com/skybert/edward.git
$ cd edward
$ make install
Finally, run Edward with:
$ make run
See the LICENSE file.