#Devil

A Chimera between the best text editor and the best operating system: Vim and Emacs.

Devil is a:

• Text editor
• Image viewer
• PDF viewer
• Web browser
• Whatever you can program in GNU Guile
• ... 👹

NOTE: Devil is in a very early development stage, expect bugs, breaking changes and lack of documentation. Feel free to contact me if you have any question or find a bug!

#Features

Although Devil is in early development, it already offers some cool features:

• Usage of GTK4
• Integrated WebKit
• Poppler for PDF rendering
• Image rendering
• Tree-sitter highlighting support
• Hackable via GNU Guile (make changes to the editor at runtime via the REPL)
• It's fast!

#Building

Please ensure that you have the following dependencies installed before building (names correspond to debian packages, but should have similar names in other distros, this might help):

• rust
• libtree-sitter
• guile-3.0-dev
• libclang-dev
• libpoppler-glib-dev
• libwebkit2gtk-5.0-dev
• libsoup-3.0-dev
• libjavascriptcoregtk-5.0-dev

Currently devil has only been tested in Debian (sid) and Arch Linux, but it should also work in other linux distros.

Download the repository:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~mikelma/devil_editor
cd devil_editor

Devil requires some nightly features of Rust. Execute the following command to make the nightly🌃 compiler the default choice when building devil:

rustup override set nightly

Then simply execute make to start compiling!

make build

Once compilation finishes, to run the editor:

./devil

You can open some files with:

./devil path/to/a/file other/file.other

Type Alt-x to open the commands menu!💃