Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
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Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#2And yet I read, on Hacker News, a number of people writing how they were often saved by the availability of nano on random systems
All the time, but I even use nano all the time on OS X for full on programming, mostly for quick edits or starting things off before I can be bothered opening a full project in Sublime. (Sure, I can 'get around' in vi, but I just don't seem to have the brain for it and nano is 90% fine. I grew up on GWBASIC so anything is an improvement ;-))
That aside, this feels like it could be a kinda cool command line level equivalent of ToDoMVC. Port this simple editor into Go, Rust, and a few similar languages - see what the differences are, etc.
Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#3Pretty cool. Something like this would make for a nice school project, I would have loved being assigned to write a simple editor back in uni
Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#4And yet I read, on Hacker News, a number of people writing how they were often saved by the availability of nano on random systems All the time, but I even use nano all the time on OS X for full on programming, mostly for quick edits or starting things off before I can be bothered opening a full project in Sublime. (Sure, I can 'get around' in vi, but I just don't seem to have the brain for it and nano is 90% fine. I…
Nice thing about Nano is that they arrow keys always seem to do what they are supposed to, no matter the system, shell, TTY, etc. Vi seems to have issues sometimes, and needs extra config
Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#5And yet I read, on Hacker News, a number of people writing how they were often saved by the availability of nano on random systems All the time, but I even use nano all the time on OS X for full on programming, mostly for quick edits or starting things off before I can be bothered opening a full project in Sublime. (Sure, I can 'get around' in vi, but I just don't seem to have the brain for it and nano is 90% fine. I…
Nice thing about Nano is that they arrow keys always seem to do what they are supposed to, no matter the system, shell, TTY, etc. Vi seems to have issues sometimes, and needs extra config
I don't know about vi (I think it's still rare on Linux systems), but Vim typically does what is expected from it.
Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#6And yet I read, on Hacker News, a number of people writing how they were often saved by the availability of nano on random systems All the time, but I even use nano all the time on OS X for full on programming, mostly for quick edits or starting things off before I can be bothered opening a full project in Sublime. (Sure, I can 'get around' in vi, but I just don't seem to have the brain for it and nano is 90% fine. I…
Nice thing about Nano is that they arrow keys always seem to do what they are supposed to, no matter the system, shell, TTY, etc. Vi seems to have issues sometimes, and needs extra config
Presumably h, j, k, l will always get you around in vi?
Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#7Wow! I love this!! Thanks for the post antirez, if just for introducing me to this now indispensable tool ;)
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Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#8What's especially impressive to me is that it even has syntax highlighting.
Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice thing about Nano is that they arrow keys always seem to do what they are supposed to, no matter the system, shell, TTY, etc. Vi seems to have issues sometimes, and needs extra config
Presumably h, j, k, l will always get you around in vi?
j and k behavior may vary depending on your config.
Re: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
#10Honestly, this is the most exciting and inspiring project I've seen on HN in years, by far. I love that it's a fully usable terminal-based text editor that has zero dependencies. Just perusing the source code has been extremely interesting and educational for me already, and it's only been 5 minutes. Definitely gonna bookmark this project and hack on it! The TODO list looks like a good start, especially the xterm-based feature.