tiranexdev / zenith

Mirror of a text editor I made

Zenith - A Text Editor Written in Zig

Features:

• Syntax Highlighting (poorly)
• Terminal Support (poorly)
• Supports Linux and MacOS(?)

Controls:

• Navigation:
  • Use arrow keys to navigate around the text
    • Ctrl + arrow keys for quicker navigation
• Line Manipulation:
  • Alt + (Arrow Up/Down) to move a line
• File Operations:
  • Ctrl + O to open a file (relative from the current working directory)
  • Ctrl + N to open a new empty tab
  • Ctrl + S to save a file
• Tab Management:
  • Ctrl + K to move to the left tab
  • Ctrl + L to move to the right tab
  • Ctrl + W to close the tab
• Editing:
  • Ctrl + Z to undo the last change
  • Ctrl + D to duplicate a line
• Search:
  • Ctrl + F for file-wide searching
    • Press Escape to exit the Finder
    • Press Enter to continue searching
    • Any other character will exit the Finder and use the character on the Tab
• Terminal:
  • Ctrl + P to open it
• Exit:
  • Press Esc to exit the editor, the terminal (Ctrl + P), File Explorer (Ctrl + O) or the file-wide searcher

Config

By default it is stored in $USER/.zenith.json, you can override this by setting the $ZENITH_CONFIG_PATH Environment Variable.

The config file is in json format, here are the options:

{
    // Defines the horizontal line scroll behaviour,
    // "Line" [Default] will only scroll the line (kind of like nano does)
    // "Tab" will scroll all the visible lines 
    scrolling: "Line" | "Tab" = "Line"
};

To-Do:

• Add more config options
  • When to scroll the line option in Config
    • Middle, MiddleEnd, End (?)
  • Ctrl + O behaviour
    • Use .vignore only
    • Use .gitignore only
    • Use both?
    • Use only (number) levels deep (.gitignore or .vignore or both)
• Colors to the terminal (Ctrl + P)
• .gitignore support for Ctrl + O
• Implement Ctrl + Y for Redo
• Text selection
  • Ctrl + A(?)
• Implement proper Syntax Highlighting and code formatting
  • Tree-Sitter?
  • LSP?
• Handle long box queries
• Refractor input parsing (src/input.zig)
• Refractor the code (to be more readable)
• Resolve all To-Do's iside the codebase
• Clipboard support

_{The tests were conducted on a Linux "kitty" terminal with Bash. Ctrl + Backspace does not work in the VSCode Terminal; This is a issue in the third party utility (VSCode).}