Chaffinch

Chaffinch is a text editor written in Elixir using the Ratatouille toolkit. At the moment, the project is basically a learning exercise for me to get comfortable with Elixir. I do not in any way claim that this code is idiomatic or well thought out, but I hope it might become so.

How to run it

Install elixir, clone this repository, and build a release:

mix deps.get
mix compile
mix release

At the moment, you have to set the file to be opened though an environment variable. You can start the application with a file opened like this:

CHAFFINCH_FILE=./welcome.txt _build/dev/rel/chaffinch/bin/chaffinch start

Roadmap

• Basic text editing in frame
• Status and message bars
  • Basic control shortcuts
  • File name and status at the top
• Handle text dimensions exceeding the window size
  • X/Y scrolling
  • Scrollbars
• File I/O
  • Loading a file with command line arguments through an environment variable
  • Saving the current state
  • Prompt when trying to close in a dirty state
• More advanced controls, user configurations
• Improved design
• Menus/tabs ?
• Syntax highlighting