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