moe

A command line based editor inspired by Vim written in Nim.

This project's goals are easily customizable, high productivity, user friendly, and high performance editor.

Features

• Written in Nim

• Adopt GapBuffer

• UTF-8 and other encodings support (Incomplete)

• Vim like mode (Normal, Insert, Visual, Replace, Ex, Filer)

• Vim like keybinds

• Infinite undo/redo

• Syntax highlighting:

  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Haskell
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Markdown
  • Nim
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Shell languages:
    • Bash
  • TOML
  • YAML
  • JSON

• Auto-complete

• Configuration file (TOML)

• Configuration mode

• Live reload of the configuration file

• Vertical/Horizontal split window

• Tab line

• Indentation lines

• Auto close/delete paren

• Simple auto indent

• Incremental search

• Auto save

• Suggestions in ex mode

• TrueColor (24bit color)

• VSCode themes

• Build on save

• Multiple status line

• QuickRun

• Automatic backups

• Highlight current words

• Highlight/Delete trailing spaces

• Vim like register

• Git support

• Syntax checker

  • Nim

• Macros

• Language Server Protocol (WIP)

  • Completion

  • Diagnostics

  • Signature Help

  • Inlay Hints

  • Inline Value

  • Hover

  • Goto definition

  • Find References

  • Call Hierarchy

  • Document Highlight

  • Document Link

  • Code Lens

  • Document Formatting

  • Rename

  • Semantic Tokens

  • Folding Range

  • Selection Range

  • Document Symbol

Planned features

• Supports regular expression and PEG

• Supports EditorConfig

• Window management

• Snippets

• Spell checker

• Terminal

• Select data structures

• Edit files over ssh

• Fuzzy search

• Plugins

• Supports huge file

• Funny animation...

Install

We recommend Linux environments.

Requires

• Nim 1.6.16 or higher

• Ncurses 6.1 or higher

• xclip v0.13 or higher (Option on GNU/Linux)

• xsel (Option on GNU/Linux)

• wl-clipboard (Option on GNU/Linux)

# Latest developmental state inside Github repository
nimble install moe@#head

Check detail

Usage

Documents (Latest)

Documents (Release)

The origin of the name

moe is a recursive acronym for "moe is an optimal editor".
And one more, it comes from the Japanese slang 萌え(moe).

Contributing, bug reports, feature request

Welcome❤

Community

Ask me anything!

• Discord

License

GNU General Public License version 3