Minigun

Just a fun project. Minigun because it supposted to be fast, not sure if it will be lol.

It's not usable at the moment, but I hope it will be one day...

It aims to be a battaries-included terminal text editor. Ideally I'd like to switch off VSCode, but nvim is just not for me and helix is being released like once a year nowadays.

Glossary

• Tab - usually what is called a buffer in other editors, but we'd like to keep it simple.

Status

Implementation order is "when needed". Literally everything is WIP and could be changed any minute.

Done

• Debug info
  • .log file
    • Defaults to $HOME/.config/minigun/debug.log, can be overwritten by using -logfile
• Status bar - like modes and unlike nvim\helix, status bar is global and not per-tab for easier inspection of the current "state"
  • Current Mode
  • Cursor Line / Position
• Commands
• Basic Components Library - We need some kind of a UI components library, because rn everything is hardcoded so its not good.
  • Box
  • Text Box

Bugs

• Cursor appears on empty lines

Work in Progress

• Modes - Unlike in helix/nvim where mode is usually per-tab, minigun modes are global and represent the current "state" of the editor
  • View
  • Insert Mode
    • i, I, a, A will do for now
  • Command Mode (: from vim)
    • wq
    • Although we don't have any errors, exclamations mark support would be nice for forced stuff like :wq!
  • Replace Mode (single char, r from vim)
  • File / Workspace mode (kind of file explorer)
  • Still thinking about select-like mode. tbh I like helix's approach more. (select-action rather than nvim's action-select)
• Config options
  • Migrate to toml
  • Global / per project config
  • Line Numbers
  • keybinds.yaml

"Actually usable"-level features

• Themes
  • Nerd font icons or something
• Multiple windows / tabs
  • Probably the easiest of all these
• Tree sitter
• LSP (multiple for the same lang)
  • helix kind of has the best LSP integration out of the box, but you still need to configure it sometimes, which is very painful if you haven't done it before.
• Formatters
• Plugins (ideally no lua)

Preview (current WIP version)

List of Commands

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