Best way to make an advanced text editor?

https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/8912/create-a-basic-text-editor-in-javascript

i think html, js, and css are the best language to make one. As a helper, here's a link on how to make a good one.

Well I don't really want it to be in the browser and JavaScript isn't too fast for big files

well, you can also use python, or C. Maybe even java. Those are good too.

I want a GUI that will give me a lot of control over the text box

you can use styling for that. Css identifier. like an id or class. Choose width, and height.

So you can set the location of the mouse in the textbox like the line and column?

it comes automatically if oyu are using the right tools.
In js, position of mouse and all comes automatically.

Like I want there to be key binds that the user can use and set the cursor mark somewhere else in the text

yes, comes normally. If it doesn't, ping me again.

What do you mean by it comes normally?

i meant in js, you usually get links for the first step. In that process, the cursor, and all comes normally.

:o ok thanks

no problem :)

I've made a Vim-like text editor (cough https://replit.com/@CHRISTIANMATTHY/pybless ), and it is a pain, but I used python and Curses. It is nice to use, I am just usually dumb tho

I don't understand how to use it I just see a blank screen in replit.com and when I run it on my computer it says "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'fileno'".

CHRISTIANMATTHY

I would use it on repl.it, and read the readme

CHRISTIANMATTHY

I posted the wrong one too, whoops

OOHHh I see it now wow that's so cool! I was trying to use that module on my computer and I kept getting errors though, any idea why?

CHRISTIANMATTHY

On Windows, you need to pip install windows-curses and remove the window resizing part.

oh do I need to run it in command prompt?

oh ok I got it running in my ubuntu terminal and it's less laggy than in replit.com. Very cool!

Nicolaijeddfj

please help me i am under the wataaaaaa

Wumi4

If you want to create a CLI text editor (like Vim) then I think a system language (like C) fits the most. Here is a really good tutorial if you want to build one: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

Thanks!

Well, I'll tell you, to start, any language that has immutable strings will have garbage performance. Ex: JavaScript, Java, Python, etc. Find and replace operations are slow without mutable strings. Then again, they're just slow in general.

So I shouldn't use any of those?

xxpertHacker

You can, but when operating with large amounts of data, the performance will drop, unless you're using weird techniques to optimize everything, and even then it might be unpredictable.

But it's all your choice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sublime was written in C++ and Python.
VSC was written in JS (iirc), and it can easily become sluggish with a good sized workload.

Ok do you knows any GUIs I should use?

xxpertHacker

Nope, but I agree with what SixBeebs had said, that's the most important part.

Depends on the language you're using though.

SixBeeps

I've heard of IDEs being written in Electron and React before, but really any language with a GUI framework should be fine. Heck, you could even do it in browser

Well I tried using Tkinter, but it is pretty limited

SixBeeps

I mean, people have done it before

I wanna build a Vim sort of editor