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Would something like this be a way for a beginner to C (barely any experience) to get their feet wet? Or is there an expectation of basic familiarity with C already?
But, if you've done any Java or Objective C, you can probably infer the gist of it without serious C study.
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Example?
It's in the parent's "redis style" link.
I've often thought of coding one for fun, with no intention to share it, just for the purpose of having a long-term project that evolves along with my skills. I've never made time for it, but I still consider it once in a while.
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I appreciate it. So, it looks weird because it's an experiment with something non-standard? Makes sense. Things stay clean overall.
That's it. For the most part, one would just export the symbols from given modules as needed (and a lot of the properties on some of the ref object types are needlessly exported, too, which makes it worse) One other thing is that the {.compile.} pragma in term.nim is not needed anymore, as Nim's stdlib has added a lot of those in[0], but it does show how easy it is to bridge between the two languages (and I'm not muc…
Would something like this be a way for a beginner to C (barely any experience) to get their feet wet? Or is there an expectation of basic familiarity with C already?
Do you have general programming experience?
Nice guide, especially the terminal raw mode stuff. I haven't seen much on that before, I really appreciate that this guide goes over that. I've been messing around with a little text editor component myself in golang: https://github.com/briansteffens/tui/blob/master/editbox.go For a SQL editor project: https://github.com/briansteffens/prequel
tui looks pretty interesting! Can you please add a README? I would love to go over the source code :)
Scite is a barebone open source text editor created by Neil Hodgson to exercise his "Scintilla" text-editor c++ library which is used in others like notepad++. In hindsight, I would have a bit more caution programming text editors. I started tweaking and modifying Scite years ago, it was very interesting but it was no small undertaking and I came to understand why Neil advised in the support forum, to customise it us…
I'm curious if anyone here regularly codes in a text editor they wrote themselves? I've often thought of coding one for fun, with no intention to share it, just for the purpose of having a long-term project that evolves along with my skills. I've never made time for it, but I still consider it once in a while.
I actually need to get off my duff and code what I really want, which is a version of what I remember the best parts of the Norton Editor implemented as an emacs mode. I have great memories of writing pascal code in ne.com, so it is a big nostalgia item for me.
Scite is a barebone open source text editor created by Neil Hodgson to exercise his "Scintilla" text-editor c++ library which is used in others like notepad++. In hindsight, I would have a bit more caution programming text editors. I started tweaking and modifying Scite years ago, it was very interesting but it was no small undertaking and I came to understand why Neil advised in the support forum, to customise it us…
Okay, I won't lie, this is a bit of a side-swipe but... ... it sounds like you kind of wanted emacs. One of the most impressive things I find about emacs (especially since semi-proper packages became a thing) is just how easy it is to get stuff that is 5-10-15 years old working on it. No word of a lie, it's amazing how they've managed to break so little over the years.