Code

A text editor built with GTK 4, LibAdwaita 1 and GtkSourceView 5, written in Python 3 thanks to the PyGObject bindings

Currently the project it's on early development stages

Features

Files

• Open file (Choose a file and place it on a new tab)
• New file (Create a new text editor on a new tab)
• Save (Overwrite)
• Save as... (Optional for existing files but mandatory for new files)

UI

• Tab navigation (to edit multiple files at the same time)
• Toggleable sidebar to browse files on the workspace folder
• Keyboard shortcuts (not configurable)

Source View

• Syntax highlighting (not configurable)
• Line numbers (not configurable)
• Style schemes

Roadmap to v1.0

Application

• Make the features configurable through the preferences window
• Save the app state (open files, current tab, etc)
• Make the app themeable

UI

• Search file
• Have a toggleable terminal targeting to the workspace folder
• Be GNOME Human Interface Guidelines compliant (Icons, alerts, toasts, etc)
• Make the file explorer detect changes in the current directory and update the sidebar accordingly

Source View

• Search
• Go to line
• Make the font family and size configurable through the preferences window
• Properly handle indentation (tabs and spaces)

Future

• Develop a Git panel to manage pulls, files to commit and change between branches
• Develop an extension API to integrate development tools like pylint, black, jedi, etc...

Development and building

The app can be build with GNOME Builder, the goal is to distribute it through Flatpak