A configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more, written in less than 1024 lines1 of Rust with minimal dependencies.
Kibi is compatible with Linux, macOS, Windows 102, and WASI.
This project is inspired by kilo, a text
editor written in C.
See comparison below for a list of additional features.
Contributions are welcome! Be careful to stay below the 1024-line limit...
1.: Counted per platform, excluding tests and
Clippy directives, see count_loc.sh
2.: Kibi requires the terminal to support
ANSI escape sequences. Windows 10 version 1703 (Creators Update,
April 2017) and above are supported.
You can install Kibi with cargo:
cargo install kibiSyntax highlighting configuration files are available in the
syntax.d directory of this repository. They need to be placed in
one of the configuration directories mentioned in the
Configuration/Syntax Highlighting section.
For instance:
cd ~/repos
git clone https://github.com/ilai-deutel/kibi.git
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/kibi/
ln -sr ./kibi/syntax.d ~/.local/share/kibi/syntax.d2 packages are available on the AUR:
kibi and
kibi-git.
Installation instructions
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Installation with an AUR helper, for instance using
yay:yay -Syu kibi # or yay -Syu kibi-git -
Install manually with
makepkg:git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/kibi.git # or git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/kibi-git.git cd kibi makepkg -si
Kibi is available as a Termux package.
Installation instructions
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Install Termux:
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Install Kibi within Termux:
pkg install kibi
The package is available in COPR as atim/kibi.
Installation instructions
sudo dnf copr enable atim/kibi -y
sudo dnf install kibiKibi is available from the official repos.
Installation instructions
Install using:
pkgin install kibior build from source:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/editors/kibi
make installKibi is available on Flathub.
Command line instructions
The flatpak can be installed using:flatpak install flathub com.github.ilai_deutel.kibiYou can then run Kibi with:
flatpak run com.github.ilai_deutel.kibikibi # Start an new text buffer
kibi <file path> # Open a file
kibi --version # Print version information and exit| Keyboard shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| Ctrl-F | Incremental search; use arrows to navigate |
| Ctrl-S | Save the buffer to the current file, or specify the file path |
| Ctrl-G | Go to <line number>[:<column number>] position |
| Ctrl-Q | Quit |
| Ctrl-D | Duplicate the current row |
| Ctrl-E | Execute an external command and paste its output |
| Ctrl-R | Remove an entire line |
| Ctrl-C | Copies the entire line |
| Ctrl-X | Cuts the entire line |
| Ctrl-V | Will paste the copied line |
| Ctrl-LeftArrow | Moves cursor to previous word |
| Ctrl-RightArrow | Moves cursor to next word |
Kibi can be configured using a configuration file. It must follow this format:
# The size of a tab. Must be > 0.
tab_stop=4
# The number of confirmations needed before quitting, when changes have been
# made since the file was last changed.
quit_times=2
# The duration for which messages are shown in the status bar, in seconds.
message_duration=3
# Whether to show line numbers.
show_line_numbers=trueThe location of these files is described below.
kibi follows the XDG Base Directory Specification:
- A user-level configuration file can be located at
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kibi/config.iniif environment variable$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEis defined,~/.config/kibi/config.iniotherwise. - A system-wide configuration file can be located at
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/kibi/config.iniif environment variable$XDG_CONFIG_DIRSis defined,/etc/kibi/config.inior/etc/xdg/kibi/config.iniotherwise.
A configuration file can be located at %APPDATA%\Kibi\config.ini.
Syntax highlighting can be configured using INI files which follow this format:
### /usr/share/kibi/syntax.d/rust.ini ###
# Kibi syntax highlighting configuration for Rust
name=Rust
extensions=rs
highlight_numbers=true
singleline_string_quotes="
singleline_comment_start=//
multiline_comment_delims=/*, */
; In Rust, the multi-line string delimiter is the same as the single-line string
; delimiter
multiline_string_delim="
; https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/appendix-01-keywords.html
keywords_1=abstract, as, async, await, become, box, break, const, continue, crate, do, dyn, else, enum, extern, false, final, fn, for, if, impl, in, let, loop, macro, match, mod, move, mut, override, priv, pub, ref, return, self, Self, static, struct, super, trait, true, try, type, typeof, unsafe, unsized, use, virtual, where, while, yield
keywords_2=i8, i16, i32, i64, i128, isize, u8, u16, u32, u36, u128, usize, f32, f64, bool, char, strThe location of these files is described below.
kibi follows the XDG Base Directory Specification:
- User-level syntax highlighting configuration files can be located at
$XDG_DATA_HOME/kibi/syntax.d/<file_name>.iniif environment variable$XDG_DATA_HOMEis defined,~/.local/share/kibi/syntax.d/<file_name>.iniotherwise. - System-wide syntax highlighting configuration files can be located at
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/kibi/syntax.d/<file_name>.iniif environment variable$XDG_DATA_DIRSis defined,/usr/local/share/kibi/syntax.d/<file_name>.inior/usr/share/kibi/syntax.d/<file_name>.iniotherwise.
Syntax highlighting configuration files can be located at %APPDATA%\Kibi\syntax.d\<file_name>.ini.
This project is inspired by kilo, a text
editor written by Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) in C, and
this tutorial (also in C).
kibi provides additional features:
- Support for UTF-8 characters
- Compatibility with Windows
- Command to jump to a given row/column
- Handle window resize (UNIX only)
- Parsing configuration files: global editor configuration, language-specific syntax highlighting configuration (38 languages and counting)
- Display line numbers on the left of the screen; display file size in the status bar
- Syntax highlighting: multi-line strings
- Save as prompt when no file name has been provided
- Command to duplicate the current row, to quickly move between words
- Ability to execute an external command from the editor and paste its output
- Memory safety, thanks to Rust!
- Many bug fixes
This project must remain tiny, so using advanced dependencies such as ncurses,
toml or
ansi-escapes would be cheating.
The following dependencies provide wrappers around system calls.
- On UNIX systems (Linux, macOS):
libc
- On Windows:
winapiwinapi-util
In addition, unicode-width is used to determine the displayed width of Unicode
characters. Unfortunately, there is no way around it: the
unicode character width table
is 230 lines long.
- Porting the
kilosource code from C to Rust and trying to make it idiomatic was interesting - Implementing new features while under the 1024-line constraint is a good challenge
- Most importantly, I wanted to learn Rust and this was a great project to start (thanks Reddit for the idea)
This project follows the all-contributors specification (emoji key). Contributions of any kind welcome!
This project is licensed under either of
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Kibi by you shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.