This project was worked on over the course of Summer 2023 as a way to learn the Rust Programming Language as well as some basic systems programming. I took inspiration from a class assignment at UCLA. However, they had some starter code for the text editor that they built off of. My project was built from the ground up following a guide written in C found here by Salvatore Sanfilippo.
I wrote this completely from scratch in Rust using the guide and supporting documentation websites as reference. The bulk of the logic such as reading/writing to a file was done on my own - wheras stuff I've never done before like sending escape sequences and setting terminal flags were copied and translated from C into Rust.
I learned a lot throughout this project, and I'm proud of the end result!
You need to install the rust compiler and cargo package manager. Once those are installed, you can simply
clone the repository and run cargo run as seen below:
git clone [email protected]:IssaAboudi/rustwrd.git
cargo runMake sure you run this in a terminal not in an IDE - or else you'll get an error that says "Inappropriate ioctl for device".
Supply a file path as the only argument to this program like:
cargo run test.txt- Ctrl + q = Quit the application
- Ctrl + u = Clears current line completely
- Ctrl + s = Saves the file to disk
- Home = Jumps to beginning of the line
- End = Jumps to end of the line
- PgUp = Scrolls Up
- PgDwn = Scrolls Down
I may extend this to have more in the future!