DVil

Minimalist text editor inspired by NeoVim with an emphasis on modular GUI and functional customisation in Nickel.

0.1.0 Milestone

• UI
  • Tabs, splits, status line
  • Basic welcome/tutorial pages
  • Standard color schemes (24 colors)
  • Basic CLI interface
  • Custom fonts
• UX
  • Nickel as configuration language
  • Basic Vim-like movement
  • Basic Vim-like commands

0.1.5 Milestone

• Refined and more flexible UI
  • Image rendering in editor
  • WYSIWYG mode
• Hot configuration reload
• Plugin system and plugin templates
  • Normal/visual mode calculator
  • Snippets using Nickel's string interpolation
• LSP support
  • Errors, warnings, lint
  • Embedded code support
• Configuration documentation template
• Read config from CLI for debugging
• Syntax highlight via Treesitter
• Startup/Performance profile via flamegraph
• Render ligatures and font options
• Spell checking