WAT?

This is a reimplementation of Gary Bernhardts editor which he presented in his Text editor from scratch screen cast. If you haven't yet subscribed to Destroy all software, please do.

Goals

The goal of this repo is to have a starting point for playing around with either editor implementation or Clojurescript. It is never meant to be used for actual editing.

Installation

To be able to hack on this, you need to install Planck, a nifty Clojurescript REPL that you can read all about here.

On a mac, this is done by

$ brew install planck

On Ubuntu, you install it by doing

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mfikes/planck
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install planck

If you're on Windows, you're on your own.

Run

In order to run the editor, you simply do

$ ./run.sh a-file

A little something on developing this editor

The keybindings in this editor are sort of emacs-based. Which means that you press C-n, C-p for next line and previous line, respectively.

Now, for this to work you need to be able to insert control characters into the source. In emacs inserting C-a into your file is done by first pressing C-q and then c-a. In vi you'd do this by first going into insert-mode, and then pressing C-v followed by a.

In other, inferior, editors, this seems to be a royal PITA, most of them cannot even display control characters correctly.

Ideas to play with

Please have a look at the issues where I've collected some ideas.