skyn9ne/xim

A terminal front-end for Xi Editor keeping minimalism as principle

xim

xim is a minimal terminal frontend for xi editor.

It is experimental and under development, so don't expect anything magical (yet!).

This is a fork which don't have any intention to merge on the original.

Installation

Assuming that you have installed xi editor core and you have ~/.cargo/bin into your PATH, the following should suffice:

# syntax highlight plugin
git clone https://github.com/google/xi-editor                                                                                       
cd xi-editor/rust/syntect-plugin                                                                                                      
make install                                                                                                                          
cd $OLDPWD                                                                                                                            

# xim install
git clone https://github.com/xi-frontend/xim                                                                                          
cd xim                                                                          
cargo install  

To run the editor after installing, use xim <filename>.

Logging

To enable logging, use the parameter -l <logfile>. Two files will be written:

• <logfile>: xim log
• <logfile>.rpc: rpc messages log

Shortcuts

• ^s Save
• ^q Quit

Caveats

Tabs

We assume tabs (\t) are 4 columns large. It that is not the case in your terminal, the cursor position will be inaccurate. On linux, to set the \t width to four spaces, do:

tabs -4

Colors

If you have the syntect plugin installed, colors will be enabled by default, with two caveats:

• You must have true colors enabled. Otherwise, some portions of text won't be displayed.
• The default color scheme (for now) is base16-eighties.dark.