Qi by TheRohans

Welcome to 气 (Qi)

I've tried many editors over the years, but I have never found one that fits me perfectly. So, I decided to fork some old open source code, clean it up, build upon it, and make an editor that would be perfect for me.

qi editor

While this is blasphemy to some, I think of Qi as a combination of Emacs and Vi. It has the usability of Emacs with the speed, small foot print and large file editing capabilities of vi.

Qi is, selfishly, for me @robrohan. You are welcome to fork, use, make suggestions, or send me questions about Qi, but I am only going to add stuff I personally want or find useful.

Here are some things that make Qi Qi (or will; not everything works yet):

Emacs keybindings
Everything is UTF-8 by default (welcome to the 21st century)
Compiles into a single, standalone binary
Text and hex based editing of anything
Open and edit large files
Basic syntax highlighting for C, Markdown, HTML, CSS, PHP, and a few others. (Or not if you build tiny)
Simplified Chinese support (and soon input (if your terminal supports UTF-8. See second point))
Works on Mac OS X Lion and Ubuntu 12.04
Full feature compile weights in at 355K. Tiny build: 197K - smaller than most website images.
Using an SSH app, you can use Qi on a mobile device

qi on the ipad

If you want to try Qi, you can do so in 4 nerdly easy steps

$ git clone https://github.com/TheRohans/qi.git
$ cd qi
$ ./configure
$ make qi

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Qi is forked from QEmacs by Fabrice Bellard, and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.