Editor

Rust, Mozilla Research’s fledgling language, is an interesting choice for developing a text editor. It’s designed to be memory safe, with a Haskell-inspired type system. I’d argue that text editors really need to be reliable and safe, so I immediately…

Kakoune

Kakoune by Maxime Coste is a Vim-inspired editor that focuses on incremental editing using selections:

Neovim’s funding drive is currently at $27,069 (271% of the goal). The 30k stretch goal is to refactor Vim into a reusable library:

$30,000: Refactor the editor into a library. It will require changing the way vim reads input or emits output. More details here…

Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim by Mike Kozlowski discusses why we love Vim:

Vi is fundamentally built on command composability. It favors small, general-purpose commands that can be combined with objects to compose larger commands. By contrast, Emacs and its…

Atom is a desktop text editor that supports Node and is based on web technology.

Yes, there’s a Vim mode. I haven’t yet had a chance to try it out, but I’ve requested a beta invite. Incidentally, a beta invitation for an open source text editor seems weird to me.

Neovim (GitHub: neovim / neovim) is a project to “aggressively refactor” Vim. Some of the project’s goals are:

• Migrate to CMake
• Switch to libuv for I/O
• Replace the plugin architecture
• Change how GUIs are handled

HappyEdit: A Vim Remake

HappyEdit is a proposed project to remake Vim using modern web technologies. The project was started by Per Thulin…