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Change the font rendering to use [RustType](https://github.com/dylanede/rusttype) for pure rust implementation.

WaDelma

Investigate which graphics library to use

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Currently, glium is used. This is not necessarily a good choice. If we are going to switch, we should do it sooner rather than later. Points to consider: - ease...

potocpav

Font rendering with glium_text is really ugly

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Maybe we could use another library like [freetype](https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/freetype-rs). I don't know how to implement the change though.

mrandri19

It sometimes is very useful to display line numbers on the border (at least as an option, to be toggled by a hotkey or menu option).

llogiq

Reproducing (On Linux/64bit) - Enter lines so that the editor has to scroll to accommodate new text. - Scroll up with mouse - Lines that are supposed to be brought...

yati-sagade

This message was intentional, to detect any cases where extra requests to the back-end could be avoided. But when scrolling using mouse scroll (or, in the future, dragging the scroll-bar),...

potocpav

Front-End Look and Feel

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Every other cross-platform editor that I know of looks and behaves much the same in its different platform versions. But Xi might, as things stand now, end up as multiple...

Bluebird45

Scrolling

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Cache the lines (BTree over line IDs?), request new lines using the render_lines API. screen position encoded by (f64,f64) for smooth scrolling. A scrollbar.

potocpav