zovt / cae

An experimental mouse-based text editor

cae

cae is an experimental, mouse-based, integrating programming environment.

The rendering is done via OpenGL currently. The use of multiple graphics backends is a consideration, but nothing has been implemented yet.

Self-dogfooding

As of Mon, 9 Jul 2018, the primary author of cae (@zovt) is using it as his primary text editor

Goals

1. cae should integrate with the surrounding system as best as possible
2. cae should be fast
3. cae should render text well
4. cae should be simple to configure

Platform Support

Tier 1: Linux (where cae is primarily developed)

Tier 2: macOs (@zovt does not have a Mac to test on, but it should probably work)

Tier 3: Windows (untested, probably requires significant changes)

Building

Requirements

• C++17 compiler (with std::filesystem support)
• fontconfig (*nix)
• glfw3
• glew
• glm

Making

git submodule init
# set your CXXFLAGS if you'd like. -DCAE_DEBUG enables debug output
make

Prior art

Some text editors that have inspired cae

• acme
• sam
• vi-family editors
• ed