Hello suckless developers, This is my first time here, I hope I'm doing everything correctly :)
There is a bit of a story leading to this post. About a year ago, I discovered the kakoune text editor. At that time I was a pretty happy vim user, but kakoune arguments for its reversed grammar[0] resonated with me and soon made me want a vim replacement. Already aware of and enthusiastic about the suckless philosophy, I started by exploring the text editors referenced there[1]. I was looking for the combination of a simple yet powerful editing model and a truly suckless development style. As none satisfied me, I decided to write my own. The result is edit[2] (yeah, quite creative on the name). It uses a kakoune-inspired selection-centric, selection-then-action model. This makes multi-cursor or column/block editing natural, without getting in the way for simple editing. In a typical suckless fashion, edit is written in C99 with no external dependencies, and is very easy to configure, hack on and extend. The terminal drawing stuff is done by termbox2.h, a single-header library discovered on [1]. In about 2.2K lines (plus 2.7K lines for termbox2.h), edit packs quite a few features, such as syntax highlighting, autocompletion, a line clipboard, and a search and replace engine supporting regular expressions and subpatterns and fields reuse. By now, it's fairly stable. No major change is expected, and I'm gradually polishing it towards version 1.0. If you're interested in taking the time to discover edit, the online manual page[3] might be a good starting point. I'm looking forward some feedback, so feel free to share your comments ;) Happy hacking, Arthur [0]: https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html [1]: https://suckless.org/rocks/ [2]: https://jacquin.xyz/edit [3]: https://jacquin.xyz/edit.1