a command line editor to make text editing fun again
jk it kinda never was but hey it should be
- hella good plugin system: the only required plugin is the plugin manager. You can disable everything else and the editor won't be able to do anything. That would be stupid.
- extensible with gluon: Configuration is code.
- killer color schemes: They adjust as you type. Jam out.
- kickass bindings: Break out of your shell. Bindings can be arbitrary state machines.
byt is a flexibly ergonomic text editor for the terminal. Its primary goals are efficiency and extensibility. It renders in full true color on supported terminals and has a goal of being a command-line editor for the modern age.
What does that mean? You might feel that vim and emacs have the market
cornered on command-line editors. As someone who is a dedicated vim user, I
will be the first one to tell you its fatal flaw: bindings are only additive.
You cannot replace them. The basic movement keys cannot be changed or moved to
other keys. In addition, plugins have to do hacky work with text buffers to
make interfaces.
The editor is very much a work in progress and currently is not even close to being functional. See ROADMAP.md for a deeper understanding of where things are and when, if at all, byt will be usable for general text editing. You probably won't see it at your average coffee shop for a number of years.