jasbury1/ginkgo

Ginkgo is a text editor built entirely in Rust. It supports cursor movements, CTRL commands, select vim commands, insert vs. normal modes, and more. Ginkgo is based on my text editor JED, which itself was based on the popular online editor Kilo.

Ginkgo Editor

A (heavily) WIP text editor entirely in Rust

Ginkgo is how I learned Rust!

It is a spin-off of my previous C++ text editor, JED, which itself was a spin-off of the popular miniature text editor Kilo

Features

Ginkgo supports many of Kilo's features, such as CTRL commands for saving and quitting. Ginkgo includes Vim features such as normal/insert modes as well as an ever-growing list of keybindings:

• o/O (open)
• i/I (insert)
• a/A (append)
• h/j/k/l (movement)
• Esc/CTRL^c (exit insert)
• u (undo)
• CTRL^r (redo)

Ginkgo also includes mouse cursor support, including text selections.

The Ginkgo tree

Ginkgo trees are beautiful. But anyone who has ever been around one knows that they have a very "distinct" smell. Equivalently, this text editor aims to be beautiful and simplistic -- without (hopefully) smelling too bad!