Motivation
As the name suggests, this was originally intended to be an IDE, but due to time limitations it is currently a text editor. This was inspired due to me wanting features such as a time travel debugger and other debugging features (like these in Bret Victor's Learnable Programming). To be able to properly visualise the state of the program in a traditional IDE is cumbersome so the solution would be to make it on an infinite canvas. Programmers often don't like clicking around with a mouse, so to solve that problem I wanted to add keyboard shortcuts similar to a tiling manager which makes manipulation of the editor windows fast.
Features (completed)
- Cursor movement
- Scrolling
- Backspace/Tab/Text insertion
- Panning canvas
- Moving windows
- Syntax highlighting
- Saving code
Features (todo)
- Selection
- Auto indent
- Undo/Redo
- Clipboard management
- Zooming
- Integrated Terminal
- Debugger
- LSP support
Installing
Source code can be found at: https://github.com/debater-coder/benchide
I have only tested running with stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu which requires MSYS2/MINGW. It may work on other platforms but this has not been tested.
