crib/README.md

Copyright 2025 Syed Daanish

Crib

A TUI IDE.

TODO

• Check why fish is behaving soo off with completions filtering

• Normalize completions edits if local filtering is used

• Capture ctrl+h,l for scrolling documentation

• Documentation fix position and make it async first render

• Allow completion list to be scrolled up and down and show only x max at a time

• Dont filter case sensitive.

• Do not recompute word under cursor if not changed

• Finish autocomplete box style functions.

• Add status bar & RUNNER mode

• Get code context from tree-sitter

• Maybe hide boxes in !normal mode

• expand color regex to match css colors if in css file

• Fix indentation logic - tree-sitter indents too if possible

  • Make it work by one getting the identation used in a file by first checking if it has any line with 2 or more spaces then the least one is set to be the indent or if it is tabs then tabs but if there are none then use a table of file type to its indentation or use 2 spaces as default. store this info as 1 = tab and 2 or more = those many spaces.
  • Use this when indenting and unindenting. And also when getting the identation of a line.
  • Also indent when going immediately to newline should follow indent of previous line regardless of file default.

• Fix bug where closing immediately while lsp is loading hangs and then segfaults.

• For "insertTextFormat": 2 in clangd and similar use only the last word in the signature when replacing

• Keep a list of words in the current buffer. (for auto completion) (maybe?)

• Add ecma to js and make tsx

• Switch to like RapidJSON ro something more basic but faster than rn

  • also decrease use of std::string so much in ui stuff and lsp and warnings etc.

• Add lsp jumping support for goto definition, hover etc.

• Add lsp rename support for renaming a symbol. (also see what tree-sitter can do here)

• Check into more lsp stuff i can add.

• Add codeium/copilot support for auto-completion (uses the VAI virtual text) as a test phase.

• Add a whitespace highlighter (nerd font). for spaces and tabs at start/end of line. not as virtual but instead at render time.

• Once renderer is proven to work well (i.e. redo this commit) merge experimental branch into main. commit 43f443e on experimental.

• Add snippets from wherever i get them. (like luasnip or vsnip)

• Add this thing where select at end of screen scrolls down. (and vice versa)

  • Can be acheived by updating main.cc to send drag events to the selected editor instead of just under cursor.
  • Then a drag event above or below will scroll the selected editor.

• Add support for virtual cursor where edits apply at all the places.

• Add alt + click to set multiple cursors.

• Add search / replace along with search / virtual cursors are searched pos.

  • Allow using perl directly for replace maybe? and others with my dfa?
  • or add searcher that supports $1 $2 etc. (capture groups)

• Add support for undo/redo.

• Add splash screen / minigame jumping.

• Normalize / validate unicode on file open. so use utf8 purely and fix other types of files

• Add git stuff.

• Add SQL support. (viewer and basic editor)

• Add color picker/palette for hex or other css colors.

• Fix bug where alt+up at eof adds extra line.

• Think about how i would keep fold states sensical if i added code prettying/formatting.

• Use tree-sitter to get the node path of the current node under cursor and add an indicator bar.

  • (possibly with a picker to jump to any node)

• Add the highlight of block edges when cursor is on a bracket (or in). (prolly from lsp)

• Add this thing where selection double click on a bracket selects whole block.

  • (only on the first time) and sets mode to WORD.

• Redo cpp/c/h scm file . also pretty much all of them do manually

• Try making lua-typed and man pages tree-sitter grammar.

• Redo folding system and its relation to move_line_* functions. (Currently its a mess)

• Make whole thing event driven and not clock driven.

• Fix in kutu.rb such that windows arent focused on hover . they are only when they are true windows and not just popups . also popus are focused even without hover when they open.