Tijolo

Lightweight, keyboard-oriented IDE for the masses.

Project status

Being rewrite using new GTK4 bindings and LibAdwaita, the re-write isn't done yet but if you want to check the old version check the v0.7.1 tag.

The TODO works like a roadmap and also list things I'm working on, it can give you a better idea of the project status.

Re-write progress

• [x] Draw grid (still unaligned).
• [x] Draw cursors.
• [x] Move cursors.
• [x] Implement Scrollable interface.
• [x] Study tree-sitter.
• [x] Handle text input (just really basic stuff to be able to test few things).
• [x] Create bindings for tree-sitter.
• [x] Fix gi-crystal structs, so Pango can be used..
• [ ] Fix gi-crystal for methods with multiple out params, so some other Pango functions can be used.
• [ ] Create a CodeLayout object to cache PangoLayout's per line.
• [ ] Render highlighted text with tree-sitter using pango attributes.
• [ ] Render tree-sitter errors.
• [ ] Implement gtk_widget_class_add_binding_signal on gtk4 shard, so shortcuts can be easily set.
• [ ] Multiple cursors.
• [ ] Revisit what was done so far.
• [ ] Replace dummy text buffer by a piece table 🔥️
• [ ] Make cursors blink
• [ ] Hide mouse when typing
• [ ] Support auto-completion

How it looks like?

See more screenshots.

Project goals

• Run fast, something you don't see very often in new desktop applications.
• Have a simple distraction free UI.
• Keyboard focused user interface.
• Easy/fast code navigation.
• ♥️ Git.
• ♥️ Language Servers.

Installing

Archlinux

There's a AUR package for every release.

$ yay -S tijolo

There's also AUR package available for latest git version, named tijolo-git.

Ubuntu

There should be a home made Ubuntu package for every release, check the github release page.

If you want to create a package from git, clone the repository then run ./packages/make-ubuntu-package, this will generate a docker image, build Tijolo inside that image, create a debian package then copy it back, out of the container. Not best approach to build a deb package but works on non-deb machines.

Dependencies

You will need:

• Crystal compiler version >= 1.0.0.
• GTK3.
• GTKSourceView4.
• Vte.
• GIR packages for these GTK libraries.
• libGit2.
• editorconfig-core.

via apt

$ sudo apt-get install -y \
    git make crystal libeditorconfig-dev \
    libgirepository1.0-dev libgit2-dev \
    libgtksourceview-4-dev libvte-2.91-dev libyaml-dev

Names and versions may differ depending on distro and version

via Homebrew/Linuxbrew

$ brew install crystal gtk+3 gobject-introspection gtksourceview4 vte3 \
               libgit2 editorconfig

Other package managers

Check your distro's package managers for the equivalent package names. You will need the install the -dev or -devel equivalent packages, in addition to the runtime packages.

Compiling from Source

$ make
$ sudo make install

Tijolo use JetBrains Mono font, you can make install them if you don't already have them installed:

$ sudo make install-fonts

To uninstall:

$ sudo make uninstall uninstall-fonts

Usage

Pass a directory of a file under a git repository to open a project. Just call it without arguments to see a list of available projects.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/hugopl/tijolo/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Any ideas/suggestions, fill in an issue.

Contributors

• Hugo Parente Lima - creator and maintainer