[VAPORWARE] pine

The "Pine Is Not Emcas" editor

Goals

• A GUI text editor with the following focus
  • Coding
  • Journal Writing
  • Documentation Writing
  • In a word, I want to implement an emacs with org-mode, I choose to make org-mode built-in because
    same problem have been solving again & again with different solution.
• Autocomplete, Syntax Highlight, Extension Management
• EXTREMELY easy to customize
  • In any language you love.
  • Modify behavior in runtime.
  • Modify editor's source in runtime.
• Selection based editing modal similar to Kakoune/Helix.
• Cross platform
  • Should be able to run in
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacOS (x86_64 and ARM)
    • WASM
• Responsive!!!!
  • One of the reason I don't want to use Emacs is that it feels too slow.
• Modern Interface
  • One of the reason people don't like emacs is because the language along with the interface, since pine is a complete rewrite, it should be possible to put people in a better situation.

Why not

• vim/neovim
  • It's a TUI software, many features simply isn't possible
• emacs
  • Afaik, there's no WISIWYG document editing, but I planned to make it in Pine
  • Also emacs is not responsive enough.
• other note taking platform
  • well if you're not programmer I would argue that those are better for you, but those softwares are not as customizable as pine and they are not designed to integrate well with codes.

Non Goals

• Start up time
  • pine is expected to run as a services, having said that, it should be able to start with in 0.5S

Nice to have

• Replace a lot of softwares
  • replace bat
  • provide something similar to firenvim

Things come up to mind

• Integration of window spliting with host.
  • Planned
    • I3WM & Sway
    • Hyprland