Newsletter: add text editor short blog series + vids

content/news/2024-05.md

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 slug: newsletter-2024-05
 author: Michael Kutowski
 date: '2024-04-02' 
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 categories:
   - newsletter
   - odin
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 We're going with the same layout as last month, let's see how it goes again. 
 
+## Text Editor Experimentation Part 1 - `Skytrias`
+
+Earlier this year I became a bit stuck with personal projects. During that time I got angry at Sublime for crashing very often.
+
+This sparked an interest in making an odin specific editor. It didn't have to do everything, but I wanted to give it a more serious try. Given that the odin `core:odin` library exists to read odin files / packages, it looked like a pretty simple project.
+
+### Craving a Challenge 
+
+Well you may have guessed it. I wanted to try something more difficult, so I decided to take one different idea for this project.
+
+Non-Linear text editing is what I called it. Meaning not having to care about separating code into files. It would be done automatically and the editor would be more like an IDE. 
+
+<video class="ratio ratio-16x9 mb-1 rounded" controls src="/images/news/2024-05-skytrias1.mp4"></video>
+
+Here is a a short preview of what I got working pretty quickly. 
+- Left: structs, procedures, etc + identifier
+- Middle: buffer name + buffer content
+- Right: Preview of the file output
+
+### What happened?
+
+You can see mostly everything is done already? By the time the project was ~1 week old. The thing is, getting raw text editors to work is actually quite simple. As soon as you can edit bytes and navigate around, you're basically done. 
+
+One feature I really missed from [4coder](https://4coder.net/) was *virtual whitespace*, which automatically indents each line. Implementing this for odin was pretty simple.
+
+### The Rest
+
+While syntax highlighting was easy, auto-completion with code *intelligence* turned out to be more trouble. At some point I though about just using OLS LSP but by the time I had already lost interest in the project.
+
+<video class="ratio ratio-16x9 mb-1 rounded" controls src="/images/news/2024-05-skytrias2.mp4"></video>
+
+Here is the current state of the project.
+- Split with individual buffer being slightly highlighted and can be navigated to/from.
+- Toggle details of buffers
+- Jump to Definition
+- Copy/Paste
+- Undo/Redo
+- Versioned buffers in a database
+
 ## EXMAPLE
 
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