Experimental Text Editor (WIP)

This project is what happens when you ask, "What if my text editor had a camera?".

text-editor-demo2.webm

Features

• Basic text editing
• Camera that smoothly follows the cursor
• File Browser that displays directories in 2D space
• SDF text rendering

Though this project is mainly in C, it uses Zig as it's compiler/build system. I really love this feature of Zig, and it allows doing some neat stuff (check out the filesystem code)!

Note: I'm still in the exploratory phase of development right now, so the code is pretty messy. The project will definitely be rewritten in the future (probably in Zig!).

Building

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Parzival-3141/text-editor.git

You'll need the self-hosted Zig compiler.

zig version
0.11.0-dev.3180+b754068fb

Then just call zig build run in the project root.

Controls

Ctrl+ScrollWheel	Zoom in/out
Ctrl+0	Reset zoom

File Browser

Input	Action
Arrow Keys	Moves the cursor
Escape	Goes up a directory
Enter	Opens the directory or file under the cursor

Text Editing

Input	Action
Arrow Keys	Moves the cursor
Ctrl+Arrow Keys	Moves the cursor by word
Escape	Closes the text box
Enter	Newline
Backspace	Remove character to the left
Delete	Remove character to the right
Home	Move cursor to line start
End	Move cursor to line end

Built With

Dependencies are included in the repo and are built from source, so you shouldn't have any issues.

• SDL2
• Freetype
• glad
• cglm
• stb
• Icons - https://fonts.google.com/icons
• Hack font

Known Issues

• Builing with -Doptimize=ReleaseFast causes the compiler to hang while analyzing src/fs.zig. Not sure why, but it's most likely a compiler bug due to regression in the C backend.