keithnyc / daisywriter

Fast and efficient terminal editor

Daisy Writer is a fast, efficient terminal editor written using Go.

Usage

Daisy Writer doesn't have a full menu system yet, so make sure you open existing files by passing the file name from the command line (e.g. daisy mydoc.txt). If the file doesn't exist, it will be created.

Key Bindings

Action	Key Combination
Save	Ctrl+S
Quit (immediate)	Ctrl+Q
Toggle Line Wrap	Ctrl+W

Note: Make sure your terminal emulator is set to unicode.

Work In Progress

Daisy Writer is still in development and not really ready for prime time.

If you lose all your work or your thesis you spent 80 hours writing explodes, I'm not responsible :)

Pull requests are appreciated.

Inspiration

I'm not a big fan of nano and while I love vim, I wanted something a little more akin to a word processor than what vim offers. I really love wordgrinder but just find it a bit too buggy on FreeBSD, but that was really the closest thing I was aiming for.

The name Daisy Writer is named for my persian cat. She watches me write and she's really small, yet full featured. So yeah, seemed like a good idea.

Thanks

A big thank you to antirez for his most excellent tutorial on writing your own editor in C. His tutorial was super helpful and well put together.

https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html

Also thanks to the gocui project and Julien Breux's pody project whose code was really invaluable in understanding gocui.

gocui: https://github.com/jroimartin/gocui

Pody: https://github.com/JulienBreux/pody