rvim

Small, mostly featureless, vim implementation in Rust. It's prototype quality code and the first non-trivial thing I've written in Rust. Don't judge it too hard...

Notes

• Implement the basics

  • Single window, single buffer
  • Statusline (bottom)
    • mode indicator
    • position indicator
    • information (e.g. can't save because file is not writeable)
  • Modes: Normal, Insert, Command (:)
  • Motions: h, j, k l

• If I have time:

  • Visual mode
  • Use u8 as underlying type in gap buffer instead of char to improve memory footprint
  • Line cache/storage for faster line access
  • Correct handling of tabs (\t)
  • Signcolumn (left bar)
    • line numbers?
    • signs?
  • undo/redo
  • copy/paste
  • async?