aristed is a project born out of my frustration with C++ IDEs.

my ideal C++ editor

• has a high degree of semanticity (highlighting, completion and diagnostics)
• is completely keyboard navigable
• is fast and lightweight
• allows writing code immediately on launching, without setting up a project
• has git integration

although this project is much more modest than the following, I am inspired by certain features of Eclipse CDT, XCode, vim, Notepad++, TextWrangler and aoeui

this project aims to stay small, adding functionality in a modular manner through the extensive use of external libraries. it should be easily hackable/extensible, features can be added as they are needed. run-time configurability is a low priority but code should be structured in a way to make this simple

planned development angles:

• extend semanticity. Clang is already used but there is much more to be gained
• navigation keybindings, aoeui style modification bindings
• git integration via libgit2

screenshot:

• Qt >= 5
  • Arch Linux (qt5-base)
  • search packages.ubuntu.com
• clang >= 3.1
  • Arch Linux (clang)
  • search packages.ubuntu.com

git clone https://github.com/ohwgiles/aristed.git aristed
mkdir aristed/build
cd aristed/build
cmake ../
make

these are ideas, some have been implemented, the rest are todos

all navigation bindings can also use shift, to extend the current selection

• alt-jkhl for movement ✔
• alt-b back a word ✔
• alt-w forward a word ✔
• ctl-a start of line ✔
• ctl-e end of line ✔
• ctl-t <char> will advance until <char> if it appears in that line ✔

• ctrl-r will invoke Eclipse-style reverse-incremental filename search dialog
• f9 will show/hide file system browser ✔

• ctrl-d deletes selection
• ctrl-w deletes last word
• ctrl-u delete until start of line
• ctrl-k delete until end of line

• ctrl-/ shows and focuses search panel ✔
• all matches are highlighted as you type ✔
• highlights will only be visible while panel is visible ✔
• enter will move the cursor to the first match after the cursor and focus the editor ✔
• esc will close the panel without moving the cursor (and disable the highlights) ✔
• alt-n will move to next result ✔
• alt-p will move to previous result ✔
• as with the navigation bindings, adding shift will select from cursor position until next match ✔
• searches are single-line regex, case insensitive by default ✔
• alt-i will toggle case sensitivity
• alt-r will toggle regex search

the same as search panel, with the following changes

• ctrl-shift-/ shows and focuses panel
• enter will perform the replacement and move to the next match
• ctrl-enter will replace all in document

• line indicator is red when modified + unsaved
• line indicator is yellow when saved but unstaged
• line indicator is blue when staged but uncommitted
• ctrl-g will stage selected (or current) lines
• ctrl-shift-g will unstage selected (or current) lines
• f2 will show git status and allow committing