quote

A Scheme/Lisp and s-expression code editor component, built in Zig. It is a standalone editor app, but is also designed to be embedded inside applications such as game engines and tools that already have a dvui window.

Status: pre-1.0. The editor is usable day-to-day for Scheme/Markdown work; paredit, multi-cursor, and the engine-integration phase (REPL panel, hot-reload, value inspection) are still in progress. See DESIGN.md for the full feature map and current phase.

Highlights

• Modal editing in the Helix/Kakoune lineage — normal mode for movement and selection, insert mode for typing.
• Tree-sitter–driven syntax highlighting + AST-aware indent for Scheme, Zig, JSON, and Markdown
• Scheme-aware paredit basics (auto-pair, skip-close, strict delete) and structural navigation
• Helix-style fuzzy file picker, buffer picker, command palette, live workspace grep (results re-search as you type), outline picker, theme picker
• Git-aware gutter: added/modified/removed bars, live against HEAD
• Scheme-defined keybindings, themes, and command-palette commands (src/keybindings.scm, src/themes.scm, src/commands.scm), layered with a user init.scm
• Multi-buffer editing with split-view, jumplist, dot-repeat, selection undo/redo, count-prefixed motions
• macOS app bundle (zig build bundle)

Build

Requires Zig 0.16.0 or newer. Earlier toolchains will fail at manifest validation.

main is self-contained: every dependency is pinned by url+hash, so a plain clone builds with no sibling checkouts. (The dev branch instead uses ../sibling path dependencies for fast local iteration — as a consumer you want main.)

zig build # debug build → zig-out/bin/quote
zig build run # build + run
zig build test # full test suite (~30 s warm; fuzz + perf canaries)
zig build bundle -Doptimize=ReleaseFast # macOS Quote.app
zig build install-user -Doptimize=ReleaseFast # bundle + install to ~/Applications & ~/.local/bin/quote

After install-user, Quote.app is in ~/Applications (clickable from Finder) and quote is on $PATH — quote path/to/file.md opens the file in the running Quote.app (or starts it). No sudo, no system-wide writes. If ~/.local/bin isn't on your $PATH, the install step prints the line to add to your shell rc.

build.zig.zon pins every dependency to an exact commit; scripts/pin-deps (run on main) bumps the pins to the sibling repos' pushed heads.

Dependencies

Zig package manager pulls these via build.zig.zon:

• storykit — text editing core (gap buffer, styling, layout, undo)
• dvui — immediate-mode GUI (our fork of david-vanderson/dvui tracking the Zig 0.16 work)
• dvui-sokol — sokol backend for dvui (windowing, Metal, clipboard, native dialogs, std.Io runtime)
• sokol-zig — sokol bindings fork (carries an NSTextInputClient patch for dead-key composition)
• sokey — keyboard-layout-aware key translation
• sift + sift-matcher — threaded fuzzy-match engine + fzf-style matcher (file/buffer pickers)
• zpicker — headless picker state (query, selection, scroll)
• comb — content-search engine (regex/literal over a gitignore-aware walk) behind the live grep
• plumbuz — in-Zig git library (HEAD blobs + line diff for the gutter, gitignore for the walks)
• zscheme — Scheme VM for REPL/completion/integration tests
• inputmap — modal input mapping
• zentry — file watching
• tree-sitter + tree-sitter-scheme, tree-sitter-json, tree-sitter-zig, and tree-sitter-markdown (vendored in vendor/)

License

MIT — see LICENSE.