sued

⚠️ sued is in early stages of development. It works, but it's still prone to errors in some cases.

A text editor that works and is an editor.

sued is a vector-oriented line editor, kind of similar to the venerable and standard ed text editor, just simpler and not nearly as powerful.

~~Yes, I know ed doesn't use vectors, shut up~~

Syntax highlighting? Code analysis? Modal editing? Cursor positioning??

Who the hell cares? Just shut up and edit.

Written in Rust, because frick you, that's why.

Questions

• Why a line editor?
  1. I like ed. I find it extremely pleasant to use, despite its terseness. I wanted to try my hand at writing a similar text editor, just a lot less complex.
  2. I don't want to go insane trying to develop a Vim-like editor. Especially not when projects like Helix exist.
• If it's ed-like, why not copy ed's syntax?
  • sued is actually more modelled after my earlier attempt at a line editor, Streakline.
  • In Streakline, editing is straightforward. You open the editor and start typing. It used commands prefixed with ~, so sued does too.
• What does sued stand for?
  • It stands for "shut up editor". This can be read as "shut up and edit", "the shut up editor" or "Shut up, editor!"
• How do you pronounce sued?
  • "soo-ed". Don't pronounce it "sood". Otherwise people are going to think a text editor's going to go to court(!)
• Now that you're working on QVSED, will sued be forgotten about?
  • Pfft. No. QVSED is a graphical editor with a completely different paradigm, and it isn't a sued replacement.

Commands

All commands start with ~. Run ~ by itself to see a list of commands.

• ~save [filename] - Write the buffer contents to the provided file name.
• ~open [filename] - Find or create a file and open its contents up in sued.
• ~show [start] [end] - Display the buffer contents, complete with line numbers. You can specify the start and end point if you wish.
• ~insert [line] - Interactively insert text into the chosen position in the buffer.
• ~replace [line] - Interactively replace the chosen line's contents in the buffer.
• ~substitute [line] [pattern]/[replacement] - Perform a regex substitution on the chosen line number, with the pattern and replacement.
• ~search [term] - Searches for the given term in the buffer and prints matching lines.
• ~swap [source] [target] - Swap two lines with each other in the buffer.
• ~delete [line] - Immediately remove a line from the buffer.
• ~run [command] - Run the provided executable or shell builtin. Real executables will be prioritised over shell builtins.
• ~exit - Quit sued, discarding the buffer contents.
• ~help - Display some information about sued.