haroldm / xi-gtk

a GTK+ front-end for the Xi editor

xi-gtk

Instructions

Build and Install xi-core

Make sure you have a recent version of Rust and Cargo installed (either from your distribution's repositories or with rustup) and that ~/.cargo/bin is in your PATH environment variable.

git clone https://github.com/google/xi-editor.git
cd xi-editor/rust
cargo install

Build and Install xi-gtk

First you need to install the dependencies.

# Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install build-essential valac meson libgtk-3-dev libjson-glib-dev
# Arch:
sudo pacman -S vala meson
# Fedora:
sudo dnf install meson vala gtk3-devel json-glib-devel

Once you have the dependencies installed you can build xi-gtk.

git clone https://github.com/eyelash/xi-gtk.git
cd xi-gtk
mkdir build
cd build
meson ..
ninja

Now you can either launch xi-gtk from the build directory with ./xi-gtk or install it with sudo ninja install.

Shortcuts

Shortcut	Command
Control+N	New File
Control+O	Open File
Control+S	Save
Control+Shift+S	Save As
Control+Z	Undo
Control+Y	Redo
Control+Q	Quit

To Do

• mouse input and selections
• saving
• follow the cursor (respect the scrollto parameter)
• undo / redo
• copy / paste
• line numbers
• find / replace
• i18n
• preferences (font family, font size, etc.)