hop Editor

This project aims to provide a terminal-based text and code editor, taking a lot of inspiration from Sublime Text.

Features

• pin folders to a file tree
• explore these folders and open files for edition
• edit multiple files via tabs
• cheap syntax highlighting
• intuitive mouse support
• some context-menus
• clipboard support
• multi-cursor

Installation

Option A: Download the x86_64/linux pre-built binary

Please go to the 'releases' section of this git repository.

Option B: Build from the rust package registry

1. Install Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
2. Run cargo install hop-editor

Option C: Build from sources

1. Install Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
2. Clone this repository
3. From the newly created directory, run cargo install --path .

How To Use

See how-to-use.md in the assets folder.

Using the Clipboard

hop relies on external executables for clipboard management. If this is a problem for you, try setting internal-clipboard to true in your config.

Copying with Ctrl + C

• hop will try to copy using wl-copy, then using xclip, then using pbcopy.

Pasting with Ctrl + V

• hop will try to paste using wl-paste, then using xclip, then using pbpaste.

When Ctrl+Shift+V is pressed, your terminal should spontaneously input characters from a clipboard as if they were pressed; hop does nothing special in this process.

Configuration

The path of the configuration file can be specified with the -c argument. By default, this path is ~/.config/hop.toml.

Please check out the default config file in assets from the git repo. There you will also find a default syntax file.

TOML Contents

• internal-clipboard: set to true if you don't want to use the system-wide clipboard
• max-cursor-lines: max number of lines that the cursor list can take in left panel
• hide-folders: list of folders to hide in the file tree
• syntax-file: path to a syntax file for syntax highligting
• tree-width: number of columns for the file tree
• background: hexadecimal color code for the background
• syntax: map of syntax token types to hexadecimal color codes
• hover: hexadecimal color code for hovering color (tree & tabs)

Contributing

I openly accept PRs for syntax highlighting changes.

For everything else, please file an issue first.