SMed

The Smooth Lightweight editor that runs SMooth like a SMoothie.

Features:

• Buttery smooth navigation and camera panning!
• No Mouse -> Training you to finally switch to VIM
• Copy/Paste
• Syntax Highlighting in C/C++
• Find/Replace
• File Explorer
• Highlighting

Building:

• Clone the repo and its subrepos.
• Build omega
  • Run the following:

  cd lib/omega/
  ./configure.sh
  ./build.sh

• In the root project, run ./build.sh
• Open any file/directory using ./build/smed <file/directory name>

Usage

• There are by default 3 modes, editing, searching, and file exploring
• Type any key as you would in a text editor

Key	Effect
Ctrl-s	Save to current file
Ctrl-left/Ctrl-right	Jump to prev/next token
Ctrl-f	Find
Ctrl-q	Quit
Ctrl-o	Open file explorer
Ctrl-n	Create a new file in file exploring mode
esc	Exits from searching mode
Ctrl-c/Ctrl-v/Ctrl-x	Classic copy, paste, cut
n	Next result in searching mode
Ctrl-+	Zoom in
Ctrl--	Zoom out

Here are some interesting reference papers/articles:

Text Sequences & Buffers

• Charles Crowley Data Structures for Text Sequences

• Gap Buffer

• The Craft of Text Editor by Craig A. Finseth

• Gap Buffers vs Ropes

• Amortized analysis

Lexers

• Crafting Interpreter's

• Tsoding's Implementation

  • my own implementation heavily used his as a foundation

• The definitive compiler "Bible": The Dragon Book