aristed

introduction

aristed is a project born out of my frustration with C++ IDEs.

my ideal C++ editor

has a high degree of semanticity (highlighting, completion and diagnostics)
is completely keyboard navigable
is fast and lightweight
allows writing code immediately on launching, without setting up a project
has git integration

although this project is much more modest than the following, I am inspired by certain features of Eclipse CDT, XCode, vim, Notepad++, TextWrangler and aoeui

this project aims to stay small, adding functionality in a modular manner through the extensive use of external libraries. it should be easily hackable/extensible, features can be added as they are needed. run-time configurability is a low priority but code should be structured in a way to make this simple

planned development angles:

extend semanticity. Clang is already used but there is much more to be gained
navigation keybindings, aoeui style modification bindings
git integration via libgit2

screenshot:

dependencies

Qt >= 5
- Arch Linux (qt5-base)
- search packages.ubuntu.com
clang >= 3.1
- Arch Linux (clang)
- search packages.ubuntu.com

compilation

git clone https://github.com/ohwgiles/aristed.git aristed
mkdir aristed/build
cd aristed/build
cmake ../
make

design

these are ideas, some have been implemented, the rest are todos

navigation

all navigation bindings can also use shift, to extend the current selection

alt-jkhl for movement ✔
alt-b back a word ✔
alt-w forward a word ✔
ctl-a start of line ✔
ctl-e end of line ✔
ctl-t <char> will advance until <char> if it appears in that line ✔

file navigation

ctrl-r will invoke Eclipse-style reverse-incremental filename search dialog
f9 will show/hide file system browser ✔

editing

ctrl-d deletes selection
ctrl-w deletes last word
ctrl-u delete until start of line
ctrl-k delete until end of line

search panel

ctrl-/ shows and focuses search panel ✔
all matches are highlighted as you type ✔
highlights will only be visible while panel is visible ✔
enter will move the cursor to the first match after the cursor and focus the editor ✔
esc will close the panel without moving the cursor (and disable the highlights) ✔
alt-n will move to next result ✔
alt-p will move to previous result ✔
as with the navigation bindings, adding shift will select from cursor position until next match ✔
searches are single-line regex, case insensitive by default ✔
alt-i will toggle case sensitivity
~~alt-r will toggle regex search~~

replace panel

the same as search panel, with the following changes

ctrl-shift-/ shows and focuses panel
enter will perform the replacement and move to the next match
ctrl-enter will replace all in document

git

line indicator is red when modified + unsaved
line indicator is yellow when saved but unstaged
line indicator is blue when staged but uncommitted
ctrl-g will stage selected (or current) lines
ctrl-shift-g will unstage selected (or current) lines
f2 will show git status and allow committing