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Welcome to the Quest Editor wiki!

We're aiming to create an editor that is

• Fast
• Interoperable
• Low memory
• Extensible
• Sane

What does that mean?

Fast - The limiting factor should be your typing speed, not the editor's processing speed

Low memory - It should be possible to edit files on any computer

Sane - The editor should handle common edge cases like mixed left-to-right and right-to-left text correctly

Extensible - It should be as easy as possible for users to adapt the editor to their own purposes, especially ones the developers never thought of

Interoperable - Interaction between different extensions should be as clean as possible

Why not use ...

• Vi, Xed, Gedit, Notepad, ...
  • Not extensible
• Atom, VSCode
  • Neither fast nor low memory
• Vim
  • Closer, but fails to be sane
• Emacs
  • Even closer, but still not sane: designing and adjusting themes is a slow descent into madness.
  • Reasonably confgured emacs (Helm, which-key, treemacs, Org-roam) with just a few buffers is not low memory (usually ~50 MB).
  • Highly customized emacs (like spacemacs) is not fast.