Kibi is a tiny text editor

Kibi is a configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more, written in less than 1024 lines of Rust with minimal dependencies.

This project is inspired by kilo, a text editor written in C.

Kibi is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Written in less than 1024 lines of code.
• Additional features compared to kilo:
  • Support for UTF-8 characters.
  • Compatibility with Windows.
  • Command to jump to a given row/column.
  • Handle window resize (UNIX only).
  • Parsing configuration files: global editor configuration, language-specific syntax highlighting configuration (38 languages and counting).
  • Display line numbers on the left of the screen; display file size in the status bar.
  • Syntax highlighting: multi-line strings.
  • Save as prompt when no file name has been provided.
  • Command to duplicate the current row, to quickly move between words.
  • Ability to execute an external command from the editor and paste its output
  • Memory safety, thanks to Rust.
  • Many bug fixes.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, Windows 102, and WASI.

Website: github.com/ilai-deutel/kibi
Support:
Developer: Ilaï Deutel
License: MIT License or Apache License, Version 2.0

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