Ferro

A lightweight text editor built in Rust.

Based on Philipp Flenker's Rust text editor tutorial.

Features

• vim-like navigation controls
• Syntax highlighting for Rust, Java, and Python (with more languages coming soon)
• Incremental forward and backward search
• Search-and-delete / search-and-replace
• Auto-indentation
• Built-in calculator for math expressions

Documentation

API documentation is located here.

For reference on controls and usage, see docs/usage.md.

If you're interested in contributing, check out CONTRIBUTING.md.

Installation

Using cargo

The simplest way to install ferro is to run cargo install ferro on your machine. You can then run ferro [file] to start editing!

From source

The following instructions assume that you've already installed Rust.

git clone https://github.com/alexxyu/ferro
cd ferro
cargo build --release

This will generate the binary for ferro in the target/release directory.