"feels like Vim, just different enough for you to be frustrated" is true, but I like the Lua built-in: it's a fantastic language for this kind of thing, and feels more inviting to a new plugin-writer than, say, Vimscript might.
It's nice to see another editor that uses straight ansi escapes instead of the bloated legacy database of glass terminal incompatibility & its associated clumsy library. :-)<p>I did a similar thing, but it's more or less vi with some subtle differences that would make any vi user mad.
I made my own Kilo and have wanted to eventually build it into something like this (Vim-ish and Lua extensible.) Eventually, I will find the time.<p>Good stuff!
cloned the source and tried to build....failed.
had to add -lm -ldl and remove -Werror in the Makefile in order to get it to even build.
After that I got a binary "e" but running it just exits right away without any output.
Seems like a bit more work needs to go into this editor before it is ready for the public :-)<p>tested on Ubuntu Linux
How hard is it to run it modeless? Also I love projects like this, so thanks!<p>GNU Zile (<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/</a>) is another one I really enjoy with a more emacs focus (i.e. modeless) (but again, changeable in any direction you want with Lua).