ant is yet another text editor, written in Rust and C. It aims to be small, fast, and efficient, while maintaining important features.
The main repository for ant has been moved to https://github.com/ZapSoftwareGroup/Ant
This is mainly a learning project, but there are some good reasons to use ant:
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Much of it is written in Rust, ensuring memory, type, and thread safety while using the program.
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Features a load of configuration options that can make it as powerful as vim, or as simplistic as nano.
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Ant can also serve as an introduction to modal editors in the terminal.
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Editing a typical file in Ant can use less than 1 *megabyte of ram.
*This value can vary depending on the file.
TBC
Here are the most common usage examples for ant:
ant file.txt
Enter: M-x quit
The library needs to be designed a certain way in order to fit the frontend. A frontend, GUI or terminal based, can be built around this implementation.
Functions also exist that take a filepath. libant_string_from_filepath will take in a filepath as a string (guarunteed to be there), and return raw file data (string/bytes/whatever this is called in c).
Typically in the frontend, a new type called buffer is created which holds crucial data like filepath, file name. This type will have a method called .to_string() which will call
the libant_string_from_filepath function.
All future functions will be performed on this raw data.
All text manipulation functions take in raw string.
Another function is called, read_next_line_of_file. This function will return the next line of a string when called. The frontend should read this, and display it on each line.
ant is licensed under the GNU/GPLv3