freja

Self-modifiable text editor implemented in Janet.

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Freja is in beta. It's stable, and crashes are rare. Files are backed up on opening / closing, so it's hard to lose work.

Some functions are missing (autocomplete when opening files, changing between files quickly). There is currently an issue on Windows that makes it hard to evaluate code inside Freja.

Currently mostly usable for Janet, no other language specific tooling. It works as a regular text editor, so I write C in Freja.

try it

prerequisites

• Janet -- https://janet-lang.org/
  • needs to use this commit or later: 04ca945ecf0598e069caadb35a3c3089187a8186
• on newer versions of janet, you need to install jpm separately:
  • https://github.com/janet-lang/jpm
• libglfw3-dev
  • (X)ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libglfw3-dev
• Raylib dependencies -- https://github.com/raysan5/raylib#installing-and-building-raylib-on-multiple-platforms

installation

[sudo] jpm install https://github.com/Saikyun/freja

If you get an old version, try running [sudo] jpm clear-cache before re-running the above command.

steps to run from source

git clone https://github.com/Saikyun/freja
cd freja
sudo jpm deps
jpm build
janet freja/main.janet

NOTE: When running freja from source, you must start it from the project directory. If you start it from another directory, you will get errors like: could not open file fonts/MplusCodeLatin60-Medium.otf

If you want to run freja anywhere, it's better to jpm install it, or jpm build it.

If you want to use PREFIX as to not litter system wide libs, check out sogaiu's post about it.

Some examples

# | is the cursor
1 2| 3
# hit Ctrl+Enter
#=> 2

"a b c"|
# Ctrl+Enter
#=> "a b c"

"a b| c"
# Ctrl+Enter
#=> b is undefined

(+ 1 2 3)|
# Ctrl+Enter
#=> 6

This can be very useful when trying to run example code in files,
or just play around with the code.

The main way to use this is to open a file, hit Ctrl+L
which will make Freja look at the environment of that file.
Successive calls to Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+L will then act in that environment.

Evaluation environment

Whenever you run hit Ctrl+L you run freja/file_handling/save-and-dofile.
This saves the file, and then runs the file using a variant of janet's dofile.
This leads to a new environment table being created (using make-env).
This environment table is then used whenever you hit Ctrl+Enter,
which calls freja/input/eval-it.
eval-it will run the code to the left of the cursor, specifically,
a symbol, keyword, string, number, struct, table, tuple (including a function call), or array.

Thanks

Thanks to sogaiu and rhine for initial testing. <3

License

Copyright 2020 Jona Ekenberg

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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