red

red or the RustyEditor is a lightweight and minimal text editor which supports multiple-tabs ( la vscode) and which integrates a file browser and a terminal. The editor component supports syntax highlighting via tree-sitter-highlight.

Building

git clone https://github.com/MoAlyousef/red
cd red
cargo build --release

To disable building with tree-sitter and the terminal:

cargo build --no-default-features --release

To build with native wayland support on Linux:

cargo build --features=fltk/use-wayland --release

Known issues

• If you're running KDE and no icons appear in the FileBrowser, you can try setting the KDEDIR to /usr/local.
• Highlighting via tree-sitter seems to vary between different language modules. tree-sitter-json seems quite limited for example.

ToDo

• Add a settings dialog.
• Save and get user settings using fltk Preferences.
• Enable using FLTK's FileChooser instead of the system provided one via the settings.
• Add more options to FileBrowser popup menu and the terminal menu.
• Support user provided color schemes for the app and the highlighting.
• Support regex for search & replace.