neurocyte / flow

# Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
This is my Zig text editor. It is under active development, but very stable
and is my daily driver for almost everything.
# Features
- **Lightning Fast** TUI with ≤6ms frame times, **low latency** input
 handling and smooth **animated scrolling**
- Intuitive UI with **tabs**, **scrollbars** and **palettes** with full
 **mouse** support for all UI elements
- Support for more than **70 programming languages**, **zero
 configuration** needed, via **tree-sitter** powered syntax highlighting
- **Language Server Protocol** pre configured support for most language
 servers
- Powerful **multi-cursor** editing and integrated **clipboard history**
- Powerful configurable keybinding system that supports **modal** and
 **non-modal** editing styles
- Multiple pre-configured **keybinding modes**
 - Flow Control - GUI IDE style bindings (similar to vscode)
 - Emacs
 - Vim
 - Helix
 - User created
- Hybrid rope/piece-table buffer system, edit **very large files** with
 **thousands of cursors**
- Infinite **undo** (at least until you run out of ram)
- Full **unicode** support, including support for the kitty text sizing
 protocol
- Plenty of **themes** included and support for vscode themes via the
 flow-themes project
- Runs on **Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Windows and Android** (under termux)
 with easy **cross-compilation** to all supported targets
# Requirements
- A modern terminal with **24bit color** and, ideally, **kitty keyboard
 protocol** support. **Kitty**, **Foot** and **Ghostty** are the
 recommended terminals at this time. **Zellij** also works well. Most
 other terminals will work, but likely with reduced functionality.
- **NerdFont** support. Either via terminal font fallback or a patched
 font.
- A **UTF-8** locale
# Roadmap
See our devlog for on-going
updates from the development team.
## In Development
- LSP completion support
- Persistent undo/redo
- File watcher integration
## Future
- Collaborative editing
- Plugin system
- Multi-terminal sessions
# Installer and manual downloads
There is an installation guide on
the main website with instructions for using the installer script. Direct
downloads of source tarballs and release and nightly binary builds are
listed on the downloads page.
Or check your favorite local system package repository.
# Building
Make sure your system meets the requirements listed above.
Flow builds with zig 0.17 at this time. Build with:
 [code] 
Zig will by default build a binary optimized for your specific CPU. If you
get illegal instruction errors add `-Dcpu=baseline` to the build command to
produce a binary with generic CPU support.
Thanks to Zig you may also cross-compile from any host to pretty much any
target. For example:
 [code] 
When cross-compiling zig will build a binary with generic CPU support.
The output binary is:
 [code] 
It is statically built (by default) and contains all the required
tree-sitter parsers and queries. No additional runtime files are required.
# Run