Xi Editor Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Zed is now open source

  Was confused until I realised I'd confused Zed, with Xi[1] which is also rust based, and which incidentally has a frontend called "Xim".. Also there's a wiki-editor (like Tomboy[2]) called "Zim"[3]. [1] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Text Editor: Data Structures

  Project site linked from the GitHub[0] is https://xi-editor.io. Linked doc is a mirror of this[1], which was afaik originally written by Raph Linus. [0]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia

  You’re referring to Raph Levien’s work on Xi [0]. Not really just a vim clone. In Fuchsia, it would have been the basis of all text editing services. If nothing else, it seems to have popularized rope data structures [1] for newer text editors. [0]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Helix (a Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor) 23.03

  Helix is awesome, though once Lapce (spiritual successor to Xi editor) gets the Helix/Kakoune editing model, I may have to jump ship. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Modern Editor Architecture

  I am very surprised that you haven't even mentioned Xi text editor, which is (was) designed as a microservice to start with, separating the text editor core from the GUI. Source: over 2 years ago

• New open source Common Lisp 3D graphics project -- call for participation

  Maybe architect kernel as a microservice? There was some text editor developed as a microservice; I don't see why it couldn't work for a FX application or game engine. Source: over 2 years ago

• GitHub is sunsetting Atom

  I thought that after the failure of the https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor project (which Lapce seems to take inspiration from) people would stop trying it, but looks like it's doing the opposite. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Suggestions for building an IDE

  Oh I didn't realize that it might have been a serious question, I'm too unfamiliar with the domain to not make stupid misinterpretations it seems, really sorry about that. Anyway no, that's a good suggestion, I think starting there makes the most sense but I'm having some decision-anxiety about where to start. I think xi-editor is likely to be the best place to start constructing an editor without making the... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Suggestions for building an IDE

  My initial thoughts are using something like the xi-editor or parts from it for text manipulation, some rust GUI framework for rendering, like egui or iced, for more language contextual actions like autocomplete I think I'd have to look into the LSP. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Now that the xi-editor project is dead are there any alternatives?

  A backend server for a text editor seems like a really great idea. For example, I'm trying to make an API client and even having an embedded JSON editor would be a lot easier with something like xi. Now that the xi GitHub repo is no longer maintained are there any projects trying a similar approach? Source: about 3 years ago

• Zed - A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust by the creators of Atom

  Would’ve been great if they just continued where Xi Editor left off. That was an interesting project as well. Source: over 3 years ago

• Thoughts on some of the actively developed text editors written in Rust?

  Has everyone already forgotten about xi-editor? I think it was the most promising one of the pack and even thought it is not actively developed now it's still a wonderful piece of software surpassing the mentioned editors. I hope it will be back on track someday. Source: over 3 years ago

• hybrid program: CLI and GUI

  GNU Octave can be run from a GUI or CLI. I think for this purpose it's a good idea to separate the frontend from the backend so that you can provide both graphical and textual frontends (cf. Xi Editor for an example of how this can be done in Rust). Source: over 3 years ago

• Creating simple markdown editor in Rust

  P.S. I know about https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor - but this is just the back end + is way to complicated for what I wish to achieve. Source: over 3 years ago

• Lesser Known Terminal Editors

  There are various Xi frontend implementations[1], some of which are entirely terminal based like xi-term[2]. Xi _itself_ does not implement any UI, but there is an example implementation in Xi-Mac[3]. [1]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor#frontends. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Text Editing Hates You Too

  There's a new(ish) editor called Xi that's built on the rope data structure: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago