[HN Gopher] Show HN: McWig - A modal, Vim-like text editor writt...
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Show HN: McWig - A modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go
Hey! Check out my "toy" text editor which I use as my daily driver.
Features LSP autocomplete, goto definition, hover info Tree-sitter
support Color themes (borrowed from the Helix text editor) Lots
of bugs Macro support Something like Emacs org-mode: Open
test.txt, place the cursor at line 15, and press "Ctrl-C Ctrl-C".
This project was written as a "speed run" -- not for speed in terms
of time, but rather as an exercise to explore the text editor
problem space without overthinking or planning ahead. It's a quick
and "dirty" implementation, so to speak.
https://github.com/firstrow/mcwig
Author : andrew_bbb
Score : 142 points
Date : 2025-06-12 13:32 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| 90s_dev wrote:
| This is incredible! It looks beautiful, with a perfect type of
| minimalism, and supports modern features out of the box. Very
| good job! If I used terminal editors anymore, I would _certainly_
| use this!
| andrew_bbb wrote:
| I appreciate your feedback!
| sdegutis wrote:
| No problem. Glad it made it to the front page quickly like I
| said it would. Now I don't look so dumb :D
| tempfile wrote:
| Looks lovely. Where does it deviate from vim? Evidently it is
| modal. What features make it more effective than vim is?
| lsllc wrote:
| So interesting that you use diffs for undo/redo! Ingenious!
| nickandbro wrote:
| Like the color schemes! I myself am working on an app called
| https://vimgolf.ai to make it easier to learn how to use vim.
| Might copy what you did with copying the color schemes from the
| helix code editor.
| paddy_m wrote:
| That's a lot of code for a toy project, impressive commitment!
|
| How does the VIM family generally handle extensibility?
|
| Do you have any unique takes there?
|
| I use Emacs, and I get how emacs does it (smallish runtime for
| text display and lisp interpreter, everything else in lisp).
| scuff3d wrote:
| I love bugs being a feature lol.
|
| Awesome project man. I'll have to spend some time exploring the
| code base when I have time.
| iamkoch wrote:
| That got me chuckling too
| hit8run wrote:
| Love it! I'm a big fan of code terminal ui code editors.
| Currently for that purpose Helix is my daily driver. Will try out
| yours shortly and don't let anyone discourage you! Keep going.
| Adaption will follow.
| xlii wrote:
| When it comes to Go editors (IMO Go is perfect language for such
| editors) I also need to mention https://anvil-editor.net
|
| It's ACME inspired, open source (although I don't think it's
| published on GitHub, one needs to download), and it's actually
| quite nice to work with due to its composability).
|
| Takes some time to use, but it's really fun to use for stuff like
| ad-hoc documentation, completion etc. Oh, and it also has REST
| API for interaction with external tools so you can Go (pun
| intended) crazy on it.
| imiric wrote:
| Looks great. Awesome job!
|
| I know you haven't planned ahead, but have you thought about
| extensibility? One of the main benefit of Vim and Emacs is that
| the user can customize it exactly to fit their needs, and the
| large ecosystem that exists around that. I suppose it would be
| smart for any new editor nowadays to be able to leverage existing
| plugins from other ecosystems, rather than starting from scratch.
| wyclif wrote:
| Just name it Wig. It's cleaner. <SeanParker.gif>
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