Azul!
I craftedsome ffi bindings for termbox [1] which is a small library
that allows to interact with the terminal (somewhat like ncurses but much
simpler).
It comes with a toy text editor with rainbow highlighting and some emacs
bindings. I tried to implement keyword highlighting but it was slow. Also
it use finger trees (a (special) persistent functional datastructure from
pfds) to represent the buffer [4]. The editor itself is less than 400
lines of
beautiful scheme code, so you can read it:
git clone https://github.com/amirouche/azul.scm
By the way, azul means hello in amazigh!
Hope this helps!
[1] The official repository of termbox is [2] but [3] has some bugfix
[2] https://github.com/nsf/termbox/
[3] https://github.com/tomas/termbox
[4] Custom finger tree (ft) datastructure for the buffer is in buffer.scm.
You don't need to understand ft to read the code, because I
implement higher
level procedure that interact with the ft like a regular list.
Haskell editor
use fingertrees too, but IDK exactly how they use finger trees.
The actual buffer use that indexed list datastructre two times, a
first time
to represent the lines. And another time to represent each line.
And because
chars are represented as integers the buffer is a ft of ft of integers.
