Re:Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor
by swah on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:26PM
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Go is a good target for portable text editors these days, IMO: https://github.com/nsf/godit
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Re:Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor
by starseeker on Friday April 08, 2016 @07:05AM
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A good point. I didn't specify in my initial comment (and I should have) but one of our other criteria is to be able to build everything with just a C/C++ compiler. So we'd have to bundle/bootstrap Go just to build the editor, which I believe is too heavy to be practical for that (unfortunately).