🌌 midnight

Emacs-inspired modern TUI platform and editor. Written in Rust.

Features:

• All-in-one platform for the Terminal; not just an editor.
• Tiling panel managment
• Standard applets written in Rust
• Syntax highlightings

Implemented applets:

• Helium: simple text editor inspired by Emacs
• Thè: text-based terminal emulator
• editbar: polybar-inspired tool bar, customizable with different Widgets
• tabs: contain different Applets insides, switchable using tabs

Coming soon:

• IPC support (emacsd-like)
• Full customization
• LSP support
• MoonKnight (File explorer and Project tree)

Keybindings

Midnight keybindings:

• M+x: open Command prompt
• M+o: Open file in Helium
• Ctrl+n: New file in Helium
• M+q: Quit midnight
• M+e: kill current Applet
• Ctrl+r: Resize current Panel
• Ctrl+m: Move current Panel

Helium keybindings:

• Most Emacs keybindings are compatible.
• Ctrl+s: Save current file

Thè keybindings: (No keybindings)

Tabs keybindings:

• M+w: Kill current Tab

Install

I. Compiling (RACCOMENDED)

• git clone https://github.com/djtech-dev/midnight.git
• git submodule init
• cargo rustc --release --features=[...] -- -C target-cpu=native You need to insert your selected features. ([] for a minimalistic experience)

There are two advantages with this method:

• Every single extra feature in Midnight is a Cargo features, so you can choose exactly what will be in your editor and what will be cut off.
• -- -C target-cpu=native uses rustc's features for better optimization for your specific hardware

II. From releases

With the future release of v1.0.0-rc1 (first public release), the executables will be avaiable in Github Releases.