geronymos / eis

[E]ditor [I]n [S]hell :icecream: - Vim-like text editor written in shell script.

Hi there 👋

I'm also on GitLab now: https://gitlab.com/Orangerot

The main development might shift to there.

eis's Issues

git diff intergration

Problem

It is not shown which lines have changed till the last commit.

Solution

Analyze git diff to color the beginning of changed/added/delted lines.

You might need knowlege in sed and awk for this.

Check if depencies are installed

Problem

The porgramm breaks if git or highlight are not installed.

highlight also has different versions on different distros, so not all arguments work for all distros (for example highlight --syntax-by-name="$filename" ).

Solution

which highlight || exit
# or better
... | (highlight -... || cat) | ...

The first one just exists the programm and might print an error message. The second one tries to skip the program.

Fix RegEx

Problem

Sometimes the RegEx eats linebreaks. Also you can extend your cursor to multiple lines (hold down right and the curosr goes to the next line without the line-counter adding up).

Solution

Check for newbreaks in the RegEx.

Language-Server-Integration

Problem

Eventho we have syntax-highlighting, we have no autocompletion, linting or real-time error checking.

Solution

Implement the LSP (language-server-protocoll). We might do autocompletion with fzf (fuzzy-finder), dmenu or rofi.

spell-check

Problem

The editor neither marks spelling mistakes, nor lets you correct them.

Solution

There is a programm called spell which prints misspelled words in a differnt color (like grep). spell also has an interactive mode where you can chose the right word from a list. We might use this implimentation or have an own mode for that.