Crusty editor

A Linux WYSIWYG console editor in Rust(!) loosely inspired by ye-olde Turbo Pascal interface. This editor makes most commands available to left hand only since right hand is way overused in development and avoids piano 2+ keys shortcuts.

Prerequisites

On Debian 11 make sure to install libxcb libraries:

sudo apt install libxcb-xfixes0-dev

Build and run

To build

cargo build

To run

cargo r

Features

File operations

Open and close main menu by pressing ESC or CTRL+d. To move around press TAB or use arrows keys. Some options have shortcuts. When the menu is opened hit the corresponding key in brackets ( )

From main menu you can Create, Save, Open or Quit.

Editing

Text input is WYSIWYG.

For help press F1.

Common editing functions:

• copy - press CTRL+c, then Tab to toggle between different modes, Space to select start of copy area and Enter to end copy
• paste - press CTRL+v
• undo - press CTRL+z and Enter
• redo - press CTRL+z, Tab and Enter
• search - press CTRL+f, type in text, Enter then Enter or f to search forward or b to search backward

To close any overlay press ESC

On Open File/Buffer windows:

• move around with arrow keys or w(up)/s(down)/a(left)/d(right)
• select file or buffer with Space or Enter

Syntax Highlighting

Rust and Python have partial syntax highlighting support.

Development

Make sure to run

. ./check.sh

before pushing and merging.

Github actions also trigger on each push. See .github/workflows/runtest.yml for details.

TODO

Current priority is a focus on making editor more resilient, finding bugs and the ability to better edit itself.

Assorted ideas for future releases:

• allow shortcut configuration
• handle large files gracefully (async load, optimize simple commands)
• compile rust source file (Rust)
• compile Cargo project (Rust)
• add support for lint (Rust)
• add support for reformat (Rust)
• run script (Python)
• run unit test (Python)
• run unit test (Rust)
• Git support
• figure out a better event system
• test thouroughly for random bugs
• add replace to search
• add support for themes
• complete existing syntax highlighters and add support for more
• add basic IDE features(compile, run unit tests, show documentation etc.)
• completion
• multi-user editing support in console