Stretto

An editor right from the 22nd century

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Presentation

Stretto is a text-based editor halfway between modal editors such as Emacs or Vim, and user-friendly ones such as Atom or SublimeText. Indeed, Stretto has three modes but also use nice shortcuts like Ctrl+s to simply save your file.

The stretto editor contains three modes :

File
Edition
Command

You can switch mode by pressing F2, and get some help about the shortcuts by pressing F3.

The Edition mode is appropriate to perform modification on files. The File mode is for file visualization. You cannot perform actions which alter the file. The Command mode is made to do complex actions.

Please see the user documentation for usage.

Some features & Screenshots

User Interface

1: Main area where files are displayed
2: Line for interactive action in Edit and File mode
3: Error section for feedbacks
4: Info view

Do-Undo-Redo

A representation of actions done, so that you don't have to press ctrl+z like a savage beast everytime you want to cancel something.

Theme

A personalization thanks to stretto.json

There are many more features. Just be curious !

Installation

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stretto-editor/stretto/master/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

After install, you can move the stretto binary to a more appropriate destination :

sudo mv stretto /usr/bin

Easy setup

After the installation you will find stretto executable and Commands.md file in your home directory. If you want to move them to another directory such as /usb/bin, keep these two files together to get documentation in the application.

You'll find a hidden configuration file in your home directory named stretto.json after the installation which will allow you to configure some features such as :

View color
Background color
Visible cursor
Highlighting of current line
Activate wrap

Warning : you can change the parameters but do not delete one of the attributes in the configuration file.

Road-Map

Ideas for futures releases:

Syntax highlighting
Screen split for multi-files visualization
Autocompletion on words
Search with regex
Configurable indentation
Multi-views on the same file
Minimap of the current file
(Un)comment lines

Stuffs that should be done :

Strengthen the test base (we love tests at Stretto)
Get rid of Gocui dependency by developing a new GUI architecture
Increase the gap between the buffer and the view in order to have a real tabulation and eventually syntax highlighting.
For the View, split SetView and create to functions. One for creation and initialization and an other one for updating fields.
Create logs and bug reports to easing the development
Take all actions into account in Undo/Redo
Use the highlighting for next occurrence or matching piece
Migrate to a graphical interface
Use a cache in case of crash
Separate the navigation from the cursor moves

About

Contribution

Please read before contributing

Code structure

Stretto is developed in Golang. See https://golang.org/doc/install or for more details.

The architecture model is MVC. Please respect this model as much as possible.

Do not hesitate to contribute and share about the code, the architecture or new features. Please contact @eric-burel for any further information : eb@lebrun-burel.com

Advice

Please merge your work on the dev branch for new features (except for bug fixes). master is only for new versions, patches and fixes.
Please unit test your code, especially for bug fixes. It would be sad to lost your work because of an unnoticed regression !
Please add advice on how to solve the problem when opening an issue if you can, or at least as much details as possible. That would be of great help.
Please always use English

Since we are a very small team, most pull requests will be merged without much checking. So please take your own responsibility and test your code before sending PRs ;)

Licence

Please see the licence for more information.