built in text-editor - Githubissues

lansingthomas commented 1 year ago

Purpose of request: make some quick improvements to the built in text editor -- so that it is useful enough for new users to explore and edit their user files ^^

improve discoverability of the basics (write)
error prevention for lost work

Describe your proposed change: These are not original ideas... but here they are: [1] save button -- the command editor-write-file is great, seems to work. But is not discoverable.

I would like to see a button (with the associated keybinding displayed)

[2] error prevention for closing an unsaved file

I know there are some tricky cases with this but it would be nice to get a message like -- "Are you sure you want to close this unsaved text file?"

Describe alternatives you've considered the related path is helping people set up external text editors. I see this as a good thing, but not for today.

Additional context

I will share mock ups for this soon... the issue up to capture peoples ideas, so lets hear it.

lansingthomas commented 1 year ago

Ideas for extra-special features

balance parentheses
highlight comments and strings
autoindent Lisp code

lansingthomas commented 1 year ago

This hypothetical UI would solve this issue.

jmercouris commented 11 months ago

Pull request #3296 will /partly/ close this issue. It will fix the problem and allow us to set this as the default editor for users. It will however not fix all the problems, it won't warn of closing unsaved files, etc. However, it will at least work out of the box!

aadcg commented 11 months ago

This issue was mistakenly closed via PR #3296.

aadcg commented 11 months ago

The following snippet should help you @jmercouris.

(define-configuration nyxt/mode/editor:editor-buffer
  ((default-modes (pushnew 'nyxt/mode/editor:plaintext-editor-mode %slot-value%))))

atlas-engineer / nyxt

built in text-editor #3162

Ideas for extra-special features