A minimalistic text editor designed for both ordinary use and software development.
Vulcan is the next incarnation of the Journal text editor (version 1.0.1 seen here: http://www.github.com/solus-project/journal/). Originally named JournalNext, we've since taken the decision to rename the project 'Vulcan' and make it independent from the Solus project. It aims to be fast, minimalist on first use, and provides the following basic features:
We'd prefer Vulcan's development to be guided by it's users - you. If you have any suggestions for improvements, new features or you've found a bug, we strongly urge you to report it in the issues section.
However, in addition it also aims to provide a range of tools helpful to developers including:
Vulcan has both unique features and a unique emphasis on design. Widget elements are smoothly animated, and the interface is designed to be intuitive and self-explanatory. It contains many useful features for more advanced tasks, but emphasises simplicity and versatility. Vulcan's development is largely user-orientated.
At the moment, Vulcan doesn't have a proper build system and uses a little BASH script for compilation. To compile Vulcan, execute these commands:
git clone https://github.com/zesterer/Vulcan
meson build
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install
Vulcan depends on various libraries:
Please note that this list is subject to change.
Got any more ideas? Suggest them in the issues section!
Vulcan is developed by Ryan Sipes & Barry Smith. All code within this repository is licensed under the GPL 2.0 software license unless otherwise specified.