Just Another Line Editor

or jale.nim

Note

This is a new (and very immature) alternative to other line editors such as linenoise (see rdstdin in the nim standard library) or nimline (https://github.com/h3rald/nimline). Currently you probably want to use either of those because this is a wip.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/japl-lang/jale
cd jale
nimble install

Checking the examples out

Building the examples

nimble examples

Checking the sample editor out. Quit with ctrl+c, save with ctrl+s.

examples/editor <filename>
# or windows:
.\examples\editor.exe <filename>

Checking the interactive prompt out. Move between lines using ctrl+up/down. Create new lines with ctrl+down on the last line. ctrl+page up/down also works.

examples/interactive_history
# or windows:
.\examples\interactive_history.exe

Features

• multiline support
• easily add new keybindings (using templates)
• very customizable (even inserting characters is a keybinding that's optional)
• plugin system based
• history
• horizontal scrolling

Missing features

Note: they won't be missing forever hopefully.

• No utf-8
• No tab autocompletion support
• No syntax highlighting support
• Windows output still really unstable/untested in depth