text editor integration

[clach04]

• https://pythontoolkit.sourceforge.net/lated to other tickets, take a look at projects listed in https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/pyvim#alternatives

https://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

mixed gui and console / cli

• ✔️ vim / gvim https://www.vim.org
  • doc vim integration tips #22
  • https://github.com/clach04/puren_tonbo/blob/main/pt.vim
• https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept - c (maybe also some c++) and lua - has GUI and ncurses interface
  • file browser plugin available https://github.com/gabdub/ta-tweaks/wiki/project-module
  • Decryption could be done via https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/api.html#textadept.editing.filter_through
  • buffer manipulation https://github.com/gibboni/ta-stuff/blob/master/bufcrypt/init.lua
  • https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/api.html#events.FILE_BEFORE_SAVE
  • https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/api.html#events.FILE_OPENED
  • event model is event based, not callback so no way to prevent file IO from occurring in base without editing core code:
    • https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/blob/0bac5dbe488dea8a722ae88bbad5281ab95c6221/core/file_io.lua#L179
    • https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/blob/0bac5dbe488dea8a722ae88bbad5281ab95c6221/core/file_io.lua#L73C8-L73C8
    • https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/blob/0bac5dbe488dea8a722ae88bbad5281ab95c6221/core/file_io.lua#L147

Also see pyvim

console / cli

• ✔️ pyvim https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/pyvim
  • integrate into pyvim  #34
• Kaa: https://github.com/kaaedit/kaa as of 2023-03-11 updated 2023
• Vai: https://github.com/stefanoborini/vai as of 2023-03-11 updated 2021
• Vis: https://github.com/martanne/vis C implementation as of 2023-03-11 updated 2023
• https://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OONO https://bitbucket-archive.softwareheritage.org/projects/lf/lfallat/oono-text-editor.html python

Also see #34 which was easy to integrate (albeit password IO TBD).

GUI

• gvim - working/implemented
• OniVim / OniVim2 - has tree view built in
  • https://github.com/onivim/oni
  • https://github.com/onivim/oni2
• https://github.com/JakobDev/jdTextEdit Python, pyqt6?
• https://github.com/mu-editor/mu - Python PyQt5
  • https://github.com/lordmauve/puppy - Python PyQt5 - puppy was initial project for mu
• https://github.com/clach04/editra-plugins/tree/chifilebrowser - python wx
• https://github.com/clach04/editra - python wx
• Scite - SciTE text editor integration #52
  • https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/scite/ci/3746e2f2c1dc88acd3ed8b7d5f42d772a5cd6fa5/
  • https://github.com/moltenform/scite-with-python
  • https://moltenform.com/page/scite-with-python/doc/writingplugin.html has note on python plugins
  • spawn commands and replace buffer https://github.com/btakita/scite-tools/blob/027640142a26d7fab65843640dc0e3fc7c5ca628/scripts/scite/editing.lua#L373
  • https://codeberg.org/lusci/lusci/src/branch/main/dist/fcrypt.lua
• https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl - lua
• https://github.com/lapce/lapce - rust
• https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php - Windows only C (C++?) support plugins
• https://cudatext.github.io/ claims Python plugin support (and spell check) - Object Pascal
• https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/ python QT
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/padpaper/ python tk
  • code from 2004 so bit-rot may have set in? - py2 only
  • no code repo, only tarball
  • single file + images/icons
  • GPL
  • tabs and spaces mixed (inconsistently)
  • find does NOT appear to work
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/pallavi/ python wx
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/pype/ python wx
• https://github.com/fheinle/PyRoom python GTK
• https://github.com/vyapp/vy/ - python vim-like GUI tk
  • Python3 port Ported to python3 vyapp/vy#6
  • https://github.com/vyapp/vy/wiki/Sniper-Plugin python tcl silver searcher plugin support
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/gecrit/ python wx
• https://github.com/matkuki/ExCo PyQt/QScintilla
• https://pythontoolkit.sourceforge.net/
• https://github.com/wkeeling/pyrite - python tk - NOT SUITABLE
  • can be made to work with Windows BUT only open/save in menu (no find) and open does not work. argv not supported, pttkview.py has more (working) features. Heavy dependencies for no functionality.
• IDLE?
• npp / NotePadPlusPlus / NotePad++ / n++
  • https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript out of dates as of 2023-07 according to readme?
  • dialogs support https://github.com/Ekopalypse/NppPythonScripts/tree/master/helper/WinDialog
  • https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/blob/master/docs/source/intro.rst#a-simple-example save notification sample - note event based not call back so plugins can not take control of file IO 😿
  • https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/14841/prevent-file-loading/4 suggests hooks are supported?
  • https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/blob/f6f403519e70b5e50285e6a32901e4194511a851/PythonScript/src/NotepadPlusWrapper.cpp#L88
  • https://github.com/pryrt/pyscFilteredViewer
• https://github.com/alexd/metapad - Windows ONLY C
• NotePad2 / NotePad3 - various forks, Windows ONLY
  • https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2
  • https://github.com/ProgerXP/Notepad2e - part of TortoiseGit (NOT the official Git for Windows client)
  • https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3