A Wildly Inefficient Text Editor

[saikyun]

I made an inefficient text editor in Janet. Maybe you'll find the code fun to look at. :) Feel free to try it out, mostly tested on MacOS, and sogaiu has run it on Linux. :)

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Code

[pyrmont]

This is cool! When you say in the video that it's not efficient, is that inevitable or something that could be fixed? :)

[saikyun]

Thank you! :)

It's something I want to fix, and I have some ideas about how to solve that. :) But I haven't worked on text editing before, so I need to explore more. Currently I'm thinking of rendering to a texture, and only re-rendering when text changes.

[uvtc]

Neat! And I see you used jaylib. I'll have to peek at your code to see what I can learn. Thanks for sharing.

[saikyun]

Please do! :) I hope you learn something. Feel free to ask me anything. Skickat från min iPhone

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20 jan. 2021 kl. 15:32 skrev John Gabriele ***@***.***>:  Neat! And I see you used jaylib. I'll have to peek at your code to see what I can learn. Thanks for sharing. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[saikyun]

Hahaha, now you know some (more) Swedish. :D

[pepe]

Exactly. I have seen some Swedish movies, and I always liked the sound of the language.

[saikyun]

Oh really? That’s interesting. What movies do you like? :)

[pepe]

One I liked a lot was Fyra nyanser av brunt. The truth is I am not watching movies at all lately—this one I have seen in the club cinema I was frequenting before kids were born.

The language impression I got from Bergman's movies mostly.

[saikyun]

Ah, cool. I haven’t watched it, but I like Robert Gustavsson.

Actually haven’t seen anything by Bergman either. I should be ashamed. :’D They just seem so heavy.

[ColonelPhantom]

FWIW: Lite XL is a text editor that's quite simple and largely written in Lua. It uses a concept called cached software rendering, which seems to be quite efficient.

[saikyun]

I've since made Freja which is not quite as inefficient, and a lot more powerful. :D But thanks for the tip! Hadn't heard of Lite XL.