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

For now, the only way to install ferro is to manually build from source. This assumes 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.