Rust Text Editor

A lightweight and fast text editor built with Rust. Designed for ease-of-use, efficiency, safety, and future extensibility (more features and keybindings), this project aims to deliver a modern text editing tool.

Features

• Create new files or edit existing ones: Use command-line arguments to open an existing file, or start from scratch.
• Syntax Highlighting: Supports highlighting for popular programming languages (Rust, C, JavaScript, Python).
• Search: Efficient text searching and navigation, with visual cues.
• Line numbers: Always know your location in the file.
• Go to line: Navigate to a specific line number with a few key-presses.
• Status bar: Always have access to the current file name, line count, current line, and a help menu. Also accepts user prompts for relevant features.
• Cross-Platform: Runs on Unix-based systems.
• Vim Keybindings: Supports basic Vim keybindings with a Normal and Insert mode.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Rust (ensure you have the latest stable version installed).

Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/brendandagys/Text-Editor-Rust.git
   cd text-editor

2. Build the project:

   cargo build --release

3. Run the text editor:

   ./target/release/text-editor

Or simply use the provided binary at the repository root.

Usage

Basic Commands

• Open a file: text-editor <filename>
• Save file: Ctrl+S
• Quit: Ctrl+Q
• Search: Ctrl+F
• Go to line: Ctrl+G

Contributing

Feel free to submit a pull request or suggest feature additions. I will likely extend this project in the future!

Acknowledgments

• Inspired by the Vim text editor.
• Thank you to those who inspire me to try new things and step outside of my comfort zone.