A

A is a text editor inspired by the Sam and Acme text editors for the Plan 9 operating system.

Written in Go (no dependencies)
- Native
- Multi-Platform
- Graphical (http://github.com/as/frame)
- Not CGo
- Not a port/transpilation
Resembles Acme and Sam text editors.
- Mouse chording
- Text is executable
- Standard UNIX keyboard shortcuts
- Implements the Edit command language
- Plumbing
Graphics
- Frame implementation stores bytes and works with '\0'
- UTF-8 rendering support
- Structure highlighting
Files
- Optimized for editing huge binary files.

note

This repository is still in the alpha stage, and frequently changes. The program comes with no warranty expressed or implied.

install or build

Binary releases for linux, windows, and darwin are available for v0.6.7+. You can install from source on these systems by running:

go get -u -t github.com/as/a

If you want to install a prior version (v0.5.5, for example, which uses the original exp/shiny)

go get github.com/as/a
go get github.com/golang/vgo
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/as/a
git checkout v0.5.5-release 
vgo build

You can also build the latest with vgo, but vgo is not necessary for that

git checkout master
vgo build

usage

a [file ...]

differences and issues

Compare to the true Acme https://github.com/as/a/wiki/Alterations
issues

https://github.com/as/a/issues

hints

To reshape the windows and columns, click on the invisible 10x10px sizer that I haven't rendered yet with the left mouse button. Hold the button down and move the window to the location. Release the button.

edit

80% of the sam command language is implemented.

Edit ,x,the standard editor is any editor,x,any editor,c,ed,

commands

Currently only in CWD
Put [go build] in the tag
Double click inside [
Middle click to execute

look

Right click on a string
If its a file, it will open it
If win32, it will also move the mouse
if you highlight a valid mode in the guru tag, right clicking in a go source file will run guru on that selection

mouse

1 Select text/sweep
1-2 Snarf (cut)
1-3 Paste
2 Execute select
3 Look select

keyboard

^U  Delete from cursor to start of line.
^W  Delete word before the cursor.
^H  Delete character before the cursor.
^A  Move cursor to start of the line.
^E  Move cursor to end of the line.
^+  Increase font size
^-  Decrease font size
^i	Run goimports (in a tag ending in .go)

extras

Looking (right click) in the main tag finds the result in all open windows

future

Fixing the bugs
Cleaning the code up
Live multi-client editing
Go specific ast/compiler stuff
Better CMD exec
File system interface to shiny events

jacereda/a

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