sapling | highly experimental vi-inspired editor | Editor library

sapling is a Rust library typically used in Editor applications. sapling has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

A highly experimental code editor where you edit code, not text. Most of the ideas for this project come from my friend Shtanton's blog post. The concept of directly editing syntax trees is called 'structured editing' and is not new; the purpose of Sapling is to use ideas from structured editing to speed up moment-to-moment code editing, much how editors like Vim and Emacs speed up editing. Sapling's editing model will be largely inspired by Vim/NeoVim and kakoune. Sapling also aims to be general purpose - Sapling should be able to edit any language, given that a suitable grammar is provided. It is worth noting that Sapling is primarily an experiment to determine whether or not such an editor could work. Therefore, for the time being, Sapling can be expected to change at any time. Hopefully the design of Sapling will converge over time - its current state is similar to how pre-1.0 Rust was continually evolving and making potentially-breaking changes so that post-1.0 Rust could be as useful as possible.