Xi-core

Jul 20, 2023

Modern editor backend written in Rust

The xi editor project is an attempt to build a high quality text editor, using modern software engineering techniques.

Goals include

  • Incredibly high performance. All editing operations should commit and paint in under 16ms. The editor should never make you wait for anything.
  • Beauty. The editor should fit well on a modern desktop, and not look like a throwback from the ’80s or ’90s. Text drawing should be done with the best technology available Core Text on Mac, DirectWrite on Windows, etc., and support Unicode fully.
  • Reliability. Crashing, hanging, or losing work should never happen.
  • Developer friendliness. It should be easy to customize xi editor, whether by adding plug-ins or hacking on the core.


Checkout these related ports:
  • Zile - Small emacs-like text editor
  • Yudit - Multi-lingual Unicode text editor with TTF support
  • Xvile - VI Like Emacs -- X11 version
  • Xmlcopyeditor - Fast validating XML editor
  • Xi-term - Terminal frontend for xi-editor
  • Xed - Small but powerful text editor for GTK
  • Xcoral - Multiwindow mouse-based text editor for X
  • Wxhexeditor - Graphical hex editor for big files with x86 disassembly support
  • Wordgrinder - Simple Unicode-aware console and X11-based word processor
  • With-editor - Use the Emacsclient as the $$EDITOR of child processes
  • With-editor-devel - Use the Emacsclient as the $$EDITOR of child processes
  • Web-mode - Autonomous Emacs major-mode for editing web templates
  • Vscode - Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS")
  • Vis - Vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
  • Vim - Improved version of the vi editor (${FLAVORU} flavor)