Simple, extendable, test-driven commandline editor written in ruby, for Linux/Mac/Windows.

Features

Desktop-like / intuitive interface
TextMate Syntax and Theme support
selecting via Shift + arrow-keys (only Linux or iTerm) or 'select mode' Ctrl+b + arrow-keys
move line up/down (Alt+Ctrl+up/down)
Tab -> indent / Shift+Tab -> unindent
keeps indentation (+ paste-detection e.g. via Cmd+v)
change (*) + writable (!) indicators
find / go to line / delete line / search & replace
configuration via ~/.ruco.rb in Ruby
Full clipboard support -> Ctrl+x/c/v
undo / redo -> Ctrl+z/y
stays at last position when reopening a file
opens file at line e.g. ruco foo/bar.rb:32
supports all newline formats
surrounds selection with quotes/braces (select abc + " --> "abc")
shortens long file names in the middle
(optional) remove trailing whitespace on save
(optional) blank line before eof on save
(optional) line numbers

Install

gem install ruco

Usage

ruco file.rb
rvmsudo ruco /etc/hosts

Customize

# ~/.ruco.rb
Ruco.configure do
  # set options
  options.window_line_scroll_offset = 5 # default 1
  options.history_entries = 10          # default 100
  options.editor_remove_trailing_whitespace_on_save = true  # default false
  options.editor_blank_line_before_eof_on_save = true       # default false
  options.editor_line_numbers = true                        # default false

  # Use any Textmate theme e.g. from http://wiki.macromates.com/Themes/UserSubmittedThemes
  # use a url that points directly to the theme, e.g. github 'raw' urls
  options.color_theme = "https://raw.github.com/deplorableword/textmate-solarized/master/Solarized%20%28dark%29.tmTheme"
  ...

  # bind a key
  # - you can use Integers and Symbols
  # - use "ruco --debug-keys foo" to see which keys are possible
  # - have a look at [keyboard.rb](https://github.com/grosser/dispel/blob/master/lib/dispel/keyboard.rb)
  bind(:"Ctrl+e") do
    ask('foo') do |response|
      if response == 'bar'
        editor.insert('baz')
      else
        editor.move(:to, 0,0)
        editor.delete(99999)
        editor.insert('FAIL!')
      end
    end
  end

  # bind an existing action
  puts @actions.keys

  bind :"Ctrl+x", :quit
  bind :"Ctrl+o", :save
  bind :"Ctrl+k", :delete_line
  bind :"Ctrl+a", :move_to_bol

  # create reusable actions
  action(:first_line){ editor.move(:to_column, 0) }
  bind :"Ctrl+u", :first_line
end

TIPS

[Mac] arow-keys + Shift/Alt does not work in default terminal (use iTerm)
[Tabs] Ruco does not like tabs. Existing tabs are displayed as single space and pressing tab inserts 2*space
[RVM] alias r="rvm 1.9.2 exec ruco" and you only have to install ruco once
[Ruby1.9] Unicode support -> install libncursesw5-dev before installing ruby
[ssh vs clipboard] access your desktops clipboard by installing xauth on the server and then using ssh -X
[Alt key] if Alt does not work try your Meta/Win/Cmd key
[Curses] LoadError: cannot load such file -- curses --> rvm install 1.9.3 ----with-libcurses

Architecture

Ruco is basically a lot of String manipulation separated in HTML style elements. The only component dealing with the commandline interface are Screen and Keyboard. Therefore everything is very simple to build and test since it returns a string or a e.g. cursor position.

Writing/reading is done in a TextArea or a TextField (a TextArea with 1 line) which are placed in Form`s.

The Application consists of a StatusBar, Editor, CommandBar and delegates actions to the currently active element.

To build the commandline output Editor/CommandBar return:

view -- text that should be displayed on the screen (complete content cropped via Window)
style_map -- a big Array with style infos, e.g. 'on line 1 chars 5 to 7 are red'
cursor -- where to draw the cursor

TODO

Shift+up and Alt+up emit the same keycodes in iTerm
ctrl+right should jump to line end and then to the next line even if the line ends in a "
only do syntax parsing for changed lines + selected lines <-> will not be redrawn anyhow
try to use complete file coloring as removed in 26d6da4
javascript syntax parsing is slow and often causes syntax-timeouts
some languages are still not mapped correctly to their syntax file languages <-> syntaxes
do not fall back to 0:0 after undoing the first change
check writable status every x seconds (e.g. in background) -> faster while typing
search help e.g. 'Nothing found' '#4 of 6 hits' 'no more hits, start from beginning ?'
align soft-tabs
highlight tabs (e.g. strange character or reverse/underline/color)
big warning when editing a not-writable file
find next (Alt+n)
smart staying at column when changing line
syntax highlighting
raise when binding to a unsupported key
search history via up/down arrow
search options regex + case-sensitive
1.8: unicode support <-> already finished but unusable due to Curses (see encoding branch)
add double quotes/braces when typing one + skip over quote/brace when its already typed at current position

Authors

Contributors

Michael Grosser
grosser.michael@gmail.com
License: MIT

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