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Over the years I've tried\ncombinations of simple text editors, IDEs and everything in between. None of them felt right\nto me, however. Some were too slow \u0026 bulky, others were too difficult to customise and still\nothers were platform specific and I couldn't use them on all my machines.\n\nI started building Iota with the view of combining ideas and features from serveral different\neditors while designing it to work on modern hardware.\n\nWhy Rust? Because its fun and why not!\n\n## Goals\n\nThe goals for Iota are that it would be:\n\n- 100% open source\n- highly extensible/customisable/scriptable\n- fast \u0026 efficient - designed with modern hardware in mind\n- cross platform - it should work anywhere\n- developer friendly - it should just \"get out of the way\"\n- Rust tooling integration (see note below)\n\nIota is still in the very early stages, and is probably not ready for every day use.\nRight now the focus is on implementing and polishing the basic editing functionality.\n\nWindows support is coming, but it's somewhat slow right now. Help with this would\nbe greatly appreciated!\n\n**Note on Rust integration:**\n_The aim is to support code editing in all languages (and of course plain text),\nwith a lean towards Rust and integration with Rust tools. I don't intend it to\nbe a \"Rust IDE\" or \"Rust only\", however I think it would be cool to experiment with\nintegration with Rust tooling. This could also be applied to other languages too._\n\n## Building\n\nClone the project and run `cargo build --release`.\n\n**NOTE:** Iota needs to be built using the nightly toolchain for now, not stable.\u003cbr\u003e\nRun the following commands - `$ rustup install nightly` following which run - `$ rustup override set nightly `.\u003cbr\u003e\n[Rustup](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs) is very useful for managing\nmultiple rust versions.\n\nOnce you have the source, run:\n\n## Usage\n\nTo start the editor run `./target/release/iota /path/to/file.txt`. Or\nsimply `./target/release/iota` to open an empty buffer.\n\nYou can also create buffers from `stdin`.\n\n```bash\n# open a buffer with the output of `ifconfig`\nifconfig | ./target/release/iota\n```\n\nYou can move the cursor around with the arrow keys.\n\nThe following keyboard bindings are also available:\n\n- `Ctrl-s` save\n- `Ctrl-q` quit\n- `Ctrl-z` undo\n- `Ctrl-y` redo\n\nIota currently supports both Vi and Emacs style keybindings for simple movement.\n\nYou can enable Vi style keybindings by using the `--vi` flag when starting Iota.\nThe vi-style modes are in the early stages, and not all functionality is there\njust yet. 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