name: rasa
description: A modular text editor
This is only a snippet, see the project&#39;s README.


Rasa is a text editor project with a few interesting goals. For better or worse it attempts
to be as modular as possible. This means that most functionality which would typically be considered to be core in other editors
is implemented as extensions in Rasa.
This approach comes with its own share of pros and cons, for instance:


Pros


 Implementing most core functionality as extensions ensures a powerful and elegant extension interface.


 Flexibility; don&#39;t like the default cursor implementation? Write your own!


 Adaptability; the core of Rasa is miniscule, you can mix and match extensions to build any editor you want.


Cons


 Module cross-dependencies makes the community infrastructure more fragile; We&#39;ll likely have to develop a solution to this as a community as time goes on.


 Fragmentation; Not having a single implementation for a given feature means extensions that depend on a feature have to pick a specific implementation to augment. Over time data-structures and types will be standardized into Rasa&#39;s core to help alleviate this.


While highly experimental, I&#39;ve found the current API to be quite expressive and adaptable;
for instance I was able to implement the notion of multiple cursors using the extension API in less than a day. I hope to keep the learning curve low as development continues.


Getting Started


First clone the Github repo
and try running the example-config included there.
Once you get it running (see the README) then you
can customize your keymap to add a few mappings you like.
Then I&#39;d check out the
Building your own extensions guide.
It goes in depth into everything you&#39;d want to know!


If you have any issues (and I&#39;m sure there&#39;ll be a few; it&#39;s a new project!) please report them here and we&#39;ll talk about it!

license_spdx: GPL-3.0
version: 0.1.5
spec_version: 1.0
download_url: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/rasa-0.1.5/rasa-0.1.5.tar.gz
home_url: 
            
              https://github.com/ChrisPenner/rasa#readme
            
          
news_url: https://libraries.io/hackage/rasa/versions.atom
date: 2017-01-13
about_resource: NONE
libraries_io_url: https://libraries.io/hackage/rasa?number=0.1.5
vcs_tool: git
vcs_repository: https://github.com/ChrisPenner/rasa
vcs_branch: master
