Writing text editor from scratch in D & Raylib

[matheus]

On Saturday, 4 April 2026 at 09:37:25 UTC, madwebness wrote:
> Hi everyone. Decided to share my work after almost a year of 
> slow grind.
>
> "ick" is a text editor I am writing in D...

Do you use any kind of model like buffer gap or anything like 
that or you developed your own ?

I used to write games but when going to text editor it was a nice 
challenge, for example loading big files, editing etc.

In my case I use my own algo, where I had an array of pointers to 
strings of some kind of buffer gaps. Deleting/Adding lines was 
pretty fast, just moving pointers around.

In my case even though I wrote syntax highlighting for it, I 
wasn't (Still not) fan of this feature, usually I use text editor 
in 2 colors white over black that's fit me more.

Have you tried to load and compare big files against other 
editors?

I remember a feature I had in linux where I could load files in 
steps and editing big files without wait to finish it, because my 
editor had "page files" with buffer between them, so it was a 
trick that made it load big files instantly while there was a 
multi thread job loading other pages. =]

I pretty sure I used some existing linux feature for this, and 
since I only used linux I couldn't care for windows, but I 
believe this one existed there too.

Good luck on your project,

Matheus.