Re: [ANN]: The Howl Editor
- From: Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:09:01 -0500
Looks impressive! I'm excited to see how it matures.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Nils Nordman <nino@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm happy to announce the first release of the Howl editor, available at:
>
> http://howl.io
>
> Howl is a general purpose, text oriented, editor, that aims to be both
> light-weight and fully customizable. It's built on top of the LuaJIT
> runtime,
> uses Gtk for it's interface and can be extended in either Lua or
> Moonscript.
> Howl draws a lot of inspiration from Emacs and Vim, and should feel
> familiar to
> anyone who has used any of these editors. It runs on Linux, should run on
> the
> *BSDs (albeit yet to be tested), and is potentially portable to other
> platforms
> such as OSX and Windows by anyone with sufficient determination.
>
> Howl is released as free software under the MIT license, with the source
> being
> available on Github (https://github.com/nilnor/howl).
>
> While this marks the first release, Howl has been in development for
> nearly two
> years, and should be fully usable for day to day purposes (YMMV of course).
>
> The homepage, http://howl.io, contains more information about Howl and
> what if
> offers, as well as some screenshots that let you get a quick idea of how it
> looks.
>
> Since this is the LuaJIT mailing list, I'll also add that Howl makes good
> use of
> the FFI, mainly for interfacing with the various g* family libraries, i.e.
> Gtk,
> GLib, etc. Should anyone be interested in that, Howl packages a generic FFI
> binding for this, named ljglibs which lets you interface with Gtk et al in
> a
> manner similar to that of LGI[1]. It's incomplete, as it includes mostly
> the
> things needed by Howl and currently assumes that the libraries are linked
> with
> the application, but can provide a good base for anyone interested in
> something
> similar. This could however be extracted out and generalized if
> there's any interest.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nils
>
> [1]: https://github.com/pavouk/lgi
>
> --
> Nils Nordman <nino@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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