Oxidized

⚙️ A friendly, modern re-imagining of Vim/Neovim in pure Rust.

Nothing is stable. Everything can change. Come build it with us.

Current status

• Core editing, motions, operators, counts, registers, and paste semantics mirror stock Vim, including Visual mode and named register workflows.
• Unicode fidelity is enforced end-to-end: grapheme clusters, emoji families, and width overrides stay intact through the input pipeline, editor state, and renderer.
• Command-line actions (:q[!], :w[!], :e[!], :metrics) match Vim safeguards while exposing Oxidized diagnostics like the metrics overlay.
• A rendering engine chooses between cursor-only, partial, scroll, and full updates while tracking performance counters in the overlay.
• Structured tracing and logging expose motion, edit, render, config, and input events for debugging without leaking pasted content.
• The NGI keypress handshake is fully landed: the runtime owns the translator, ingests KeyPress events directly, and enforces deterministic timeout deadlines with canonical tracing targets.
• A parity regression harness replays real Vim keystrokes to keep behavior aligned with upstream Vim across Unicode-heavy scenarios.

Still on the roadmap

• Multiple visible views and split window management
• Search, substitution, syntax highlighting, and theming
• LSP/DAP, completion surface, macro recording, and plugin runtime
• Advanced batching heuristics, collaborative editing, Copilot integration

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/freddiehaddad/oxidized
cd oxidized
cargo test
cargo run

Try: type with i (throw in 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦), backspace clusters cleanly, move around, insert newline + undo (u) / redo (Ctrl-R), open a file :e Cargo.toml, toggle metrics :metrics, quit :q.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md (commit hooks, architecture tenets, workflow). Draft PRs & early issues welcome. Tone: breadth‑first, event‑driven, Unicode‑correct, metrics everywhere.

For a deeper dive, check out the NGI design notes (docs/input.md) and the logging taxonomy (docs/logging.md).

License

Dual: Apache 2.0 OR MIT — choose what you prefer.

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If clean‑slate editor architecture, Unicode spelunking, and terminal diff shaving sound fun — star, watch, and jump in.