Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal

Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by jonnycomputer on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:42PM (#24976363)

As far as I can tell, this is basically a toy project to show off the programmer's skills and practice doing something in Rust. It's also probably something that was fun to do and the programmer would probably like to show it off.

Treating it as some kind of alternative to Emacs or Vim is probably missing the point.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by kurjam on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:21AM (#24977252)

Agreed. This should probably be under ShowHN. I was expecting to see an semi-finished product here. And even the first sentence of the "About The Project" section states:

> Ox is a text editor with IDE-like features.

And then we had the actual feature list, current version seems to be 0.2.5.

> Auto indentation (0.3.0) > Auto brackets (0.3.1) > Auto complete (0.3.2)

Which are quite essential for calling something "IDE like".

Other than that. It looks nice. I've seen people calling it an Nano replacement in the comments here, which seems to be missing the big point of nano - it's easily available in a lot of *nix systems by default.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by makapuf on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:52AM (#24977751)

The editor feature list sound definitely promising and certainely has appeal.

I've tried micro, psi but they're not in a state I can use them daily.

What i'd love is basically sublime text in a terminal. I tried ox, but it's currently a bit buggy and non intuitive (no help that I could find, no backspace, cursor on the wrong line..)

Nothing wrong with this, it's a work in progress and early in its development. It shows great promise and I'll definitely check back in the future !

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by slmjkdbtl on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:20AM (#24977917)

Strongly agreed. Every time anyone makes anything people will always say "why are you making this, since there're better options like x, y and z".

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