Pinel

The internal API for basic stuff works!! Basically i looked at how neovim uses lua to invoke its internal api and decided to implement that so i can allow scripting in Pinel! It was actually pretty easy. While vim/nvims api was written in C I was able to port over the basic infrastructure which just involves invoking those functions and logging them when the app loads. While this does increase load time it is very minimal.

I also wrote up the docs for it!

The first image is me disabling the sidebar using the script in the second image.

here is a template file you can check out to see how it works!

More functions and language supports to come soon!

Changelog

• added template init file
• Add initial configuration for Pinel theme
• added rest of v1 api functions
• added some api functions
• fix: loads from root .config instead of /Applications/
• feat: added lua internal api for basic visual

Pretty massive stuff! I added markdown rendering support (with hot-reloading so that any change appears instantly) and it works pretty well! I found the package frostmask yesterday while doomscrolling in bed and it turns out its pretty darn efficient. I need to figure out as to why the code editor section is choppy/slow when markdown render is active.

Some Stats:
Loading the markdown: *~ 1-1.5 seconds*
Hot-reloading: < 1 second

The image linked is a part of the codebase that is using the new active markdown render feature

Changelog

• feat: tested ver of markdown support
• fix: added impl references for markdown preview
• wip: added split-preview state
• fix: added navigation to command palette using arrow keys
• ci: fix 2 >= 8 level vulns in deps
• feat: added SF-Pro for ui font
• doc: added SF Pro -> change for ui font
• feat: fully updated code editor colours + guide for themes
• feat: added delay for hover + docs for customization
• feat: added hover documentation

I mostly worked on documentation and getting the site ready! Everything has been pretty smooth so far!

I thought of an idea while in the shower. Sahil suggested i add ssh support such that i can edit the contents of a file or directory while sshed into it. VSCode has this (thats how I worked on an old project which was hosted on nest). The average user wouldn’t need access to a ssh client and edit stuff so why not make it a terminal command such as pinel connect <ssh host> where could be [email protected] and traverse and edit a directory and its contents through it

Changelog

• unfinished about
• added some about
• add 2.4 general package manager docs
• added 2.2 windows
• added 2.1 macos
• feat: added all of section 1 and 2.0
• Create CREDITS.md
• feat: added de-loading of lsp upon inactive

I’ve been vibecoding quite a bit to fix up some issues that i have absolutely no clue why they fail. For example I followed the LSP support guide for iced-code-editor and I still haven’t been able to understand as to why it didn’t work. It’s my priority and I just cannot figure out why. I had opus give me some code for lsp loading and i gave it back an idea to de load the server when a file is inactive.

The images in the devlog are of my activity monitor while multiple files are open as well as the autocomplete working!

Changelog

• feat: added de-loading of lsp upon inactive
• feat: added log support
• feat: new theme and lsp rewrite ish
• wip feat: addded some lsp fixes

Okay so I wanted to add one more feature before I start using Pinel to build itself and that feature was automatic indentation. Little did i know just how much of a pain this is to implement. For starters, i have to write the logic for it by myself (which i dont mind) but the issue is that its really really weird. I tested out my code. Heres how it went:

• Doesn’t work
• Works in some files
• Doesn’t work again
• Works again in some files
• Stops working
• Works again in some files

I decided to put it aside for now and just deal with it later

Changelog

• feat: indentation support for languages with modifiers
• feat: tabs for indentation + basic smart tabs
• feat: added window resize saving + preferences.lua edit
• fix: changed all references of rode to pinel
• fix: disabled vim mode
• doc: changed references from rode -> pinel

This is a pretty important devlog as we now have…. Integrated terminal support! I found this really cool rust crate a while ago that allows for terminal emulation using Iced in rust! It’s called iced_term. Its still in beta so I would assume it isnt perfect but its really cool! I might even consider making my own contributions to it :D

I also renamed some references in the codebase from “Rode” and changed it to “Pinel” as a part of the new transfer

fyi the image in the devlog is the actual application showing the current state of the integrated terminal

If you plan on using it, i have tested it for mac but when a release is made it will be tested for all supported operating systems!

Changelog

• doc: changed references from rode -> pinel
• feat: added terminal integration needs sizing

I remade the autocomplete and it somewhat works but ill probably have to scrap that code for now since i found this that now has lsp + autocomplete support. My plan is to use that in order to have autocomplete + a bit of my own algorithm!

Also i took feedback from my last voting cycle and made a website! This will be used as a way for people to quick install as well as look at docs. Claude Opus 4.6 cooked w/ this and so did opencode! check out the site here

Changelog

• fixed stuff
• fixed object object issue for docs sidebar
• uhh vibecoded sections not done
• new doc
• added the new pinel site
• new files
• new theme
• feat: readder proper autcomplete with full structure

theres this really cool crate that i came across https://crates.io/crates/iced-code-editor and so i saw that it had native number line support. I’ve been trying to get proper number line support for the past 20 days and i just couldn’t figure out a solution and this crate had exactly that!! i tried it out and it looks so fricking peak

I also added some optimisation for file opening and tested it! Before this it would take 3-4 seconds to load an 8k file into buffer but after the optimisation changes it takes <1 second

Changelog

• feat: vibecoded a switch over to iced-code-editor
• Refactor release workflow for improved structure
• 0.4.3 because 0.4.2 exists but is failed build
• Remove ‘–locked’ option from cargo build commands
• Bump version from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2
• Refactor release workflow for Arch Linux support
• feat: prompt when opening sensitive files
• feat: basic vim stuff

Added a very very very minimal lsp support that just shows an error exists when it does! Stayed up all night working on it sob. Oh also vim commands (ish) its very buggy but im working on it :D I also switched over to using ropey for some quick text editing!

Changelog

• feat: basic vim stuff
• feat: using ropey for quick text editing
• feat: added in line suggestion
• fix: moved lsp to bottom
• feat: added basic lsp support

So i accidentally leaked my hackatime api key in front of 20 ppl. And so i implemented api key blur! it looks kinda mid rn but thats because i just want to get it working. I’ll probably have a similar system where it prompts when you try to open a file like.env so that you don’t accidentally leak some stuff. Also i changed the codebase to use a subscription system where the app subscribes to certain features/processes (this helps me have a cleaner codebase)

Changelog

• wip feat: added a basic key blur
• wip: added subscription based system
• doc: refactored app.rs into smaller subscribtion based files
• Template AGENTS.md more to come

I tried making it into a universal DMG with proper checksums so that I can have an auto update feature inside the editor. Its going horribly because apple is weird!

Other than that I changed the theme selection to be a dropdown and it actually saves it now!

Changelog

• Bump version from 0.4.0 to 0.4.1
• ci: added tokio to iced features
• wip feat: adding auto-updater
• feat: made themes into dropdown and theme saving
• fix: updated file structure so that assets under src for crates
• feat: updated release file for new checksum stuff
• wip feat: added number lines, need to move along with code
• bumping from 0.3.2 to 0.4.0
• fix: made the code editor section a bit cleaner

Switched the codebase over to used iced! ill make more optimisations in the near future but practically everyithing looks the same. I will need to revisit and see what other packages to use for optimisation but other than that ive been having an amazing expoerience with iced! Most of this stuff is ai code that was rewritten to work with iced but that will change as i refactor!

I worked on the indentation feature because who codes without proper indentation. I might be stupid but im not a psycho and it sorta works. Still some tweaks because it doesnt feel right. Also new version! Thanks to shuflduf for making 0.3.2 possible :)

Changelog

• Bump version from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2
• feat: added functioning smart tabs

I reworked the treesitter code so that highlighting follows an actually good standard unlike wtv homemade algorithm i had before. I also tried using Rode to code rode and holy shit it was horrible. Bottom 1 experience of ALL time

Uhh ok so i need to add the auto tab thing and figure out why navigation is dogshit

The syntax highlighter is supposed to be like under 1ms (1/1000) for my people who dont know what a millisecond is and uhh yeah idk how to test it but maybe later when i understand it

Changelog

• feat: added tree-sitter-highlight
• style: run cargo fmt

Hackatime/wakatime support works. It was surprisingly simple and yeah.

Shuflduf showed me this really cool gist they wrote for automating github release + crates release and i will be using it from now on.

Next up: optimisation + git/lazygit integration

Changelog

• doc: so im stupid and i put the release in the wrong dir
• doc: using shuflduf gist release action
• doc: cargo and toml for crates release
• feat: added wakatime/hackatime support with endpoint testing

So i added a settings section in the file navigation bar and it seems to be working pretty good. I also fixed why the autocomplete suggestion accepting wasnt working and its been fixed!

Changelog

• doc: updating lock and toml for release
• feat: added navigation and selection for fuzzy finding through modal
• doc: removed unused variable for autocomplete
• feat: you can use lua for themes now
• feat: added settings section in file navigator + command

I readded some old features that were disabled for a stable release! they include the fuzzy finder (which now has a new keybind), and the command palette! I also worked on a startup text that shows when the user is not in a file or a directory! Kinda like what vscode has

Changelog

• feat: no file or folder open animation added
• use modifier+shift+f for fuzzy finder
• feat: re-added the command palette back to usage
• feat: updated utils file with arch support
• Delete dist directory
• doc: updated lock and toml file for crates release

We have auto bracket closing support my bluds it tweaked out for a bit because i was logging every bracket related action instead of only opening meaning that even if i backspaced an open bracket to bring it back to one line, it would append a closing bracket. I fixed this by only accounting for physical changes to the brackets! Next step is to auto tab when the user opens a bracket into a new line!

Changelog

• feat: fixed the mitosis of closing bracket upon backspace
• wip feat: semi working closing brackets
• fix: wip fix for out of range mallloc error

Some random guy commented on my github issue yesterday to show his fuzzy finding algorithm so i spent 2 hours implementing it! The algorithm is able to index and generate results in under 30 milliseconds for indexes of size ≤ 1000 and for sizes 1000 < n < 10,000 it takes 60-300 ms!

Changelog

• fix: removed the annoying enter state for autocomplete
• doc: new lock and toml file
• feat: semi working intergration of ff autocomplete
• feat: added types file for aoc
• feat: added the public api and mod for autocomplete
• basic files added
• fix: switch to modular dir
• doc: dry run lock file
• doc: getting ready for cargo push for 0.2.0

v1 of the treesitter works! It’s kinda hardcoded but its get the job done for most users. It has support for js, tx, rust, and python! I’ll probably integrate native LSP support next so that its easier for treesitter to detect the keywords for other languages

Changelog

• feat: finished v1 of treesitter python works
• wip feat: added rest of support needs testing
• wip feat: updating other src to work with tst
• wip feat: added the treesitter file needs impl

I tried publishing rode-editor v0.1.2 and realized that the icon system just would not work and so I had to come up with a series of fixes.

In the end i realized that embedding the files into the system and then if not found using a fallback system to load them directly from the assets folder seems to work!

I’ll test out the performance and functionality trade offs of this soon hopefully by 0.1.5 when I add treesitter support but until then thats it!

The image in the devlog is v0.1.4 of rode-editor that is opened inside of another project of mine. Used solely for showing that the icons work on the official crates.io version

Changelog

• doc: added lock file for dry run
• doc: dry running publish for 0.1.4
• fix: updated the paths for icons to work with compiled version

Changelog

• feat: basic autocomplete that kinda harcoded
  Not that many changes here but what I did is pretty significant. Rode now has a (somewhat) working autocomplete! I kinda just harcoded the keywords for rust, js/ts, and python and then some common stuff like data types. There is also a detection system to find the context of where the user is (inside a function or not) and then change the results based on that.

I had to debug some errors dealing with the HashSet library that is a part of std::collections but other than that its been going pretty well!

Changelog

• feat: actually function icon manager with fixes
  I realized that FitTo was not a part of std so i had to import it from usvg. Due to this i rewrote some rendering parts of the code and the icon manager works!
• wip feat: icon manager
  This was an extremely base version where I just had the barebones stuff such as the file entension detection and routed them to the actual files
• doc: using file icon packs from EmmanuelBeziat and move fonts
  I imported all the files from EmmanuelBeziat/vscode-great-icons and i chose them as my file icons of choice! I’ll figure out a way to allow users to have custom file icons but thats honestly out of my scope for now
• feat: added fira code support without error
  Fira code support (without ligatures) works now :) I can’t really use the programmer version with the ligatures without rewriting my whole rendering backend so thats a task for later
• wip feat: fira code default support for fonts
  I downloaded and imported the fira code font versions and just had them up and running!

NOTE: The images I linked are of the actual file tree in its current state as well as some sample code from another project just to show what the font looks like :)

I played around with the fuzzy finder a bit more and readded it to the application and its pretty stable! I think theres a couple more bugs i need to fix such as the files not being opened when selected through the fuzzy finder modal but other than that its fine!

I worked on some vim commands. vibecoded a tad bit of it but it sucks so ill probably rewrite some parts of it! The cursor works but the problem is that the actual cursor and the vim cursor are not synced. The blue block in the i

Pretty simple devlog I wrote up some updated docs so that the shipwrights can actually use it.

I fixed a few issues that were stopping me from publishing my project to [crates.io](https://crates.io] and it took me a bit to fix those but the main one was like about an if statement that could’ve been a bit more efficient.

After that I spent the rest of my time just writing an actually good looking readme and I’m done! There are a LOT of issues but atleast the app is useable I’ll fix more later :pf:

Oh I also drew a logo in excalidraw

It’s been a while since I devlogged here because I’ve been spending my time working on this project for campfire flagship but I might just submit it for flavortown. Some really MASSIVE changes i made were:

• https://github.com/kashsuks/Rode/commit/7bd004e65a379c4213e695b46310a726441e72f1 Adding a fuzzy finder so that once the user is in Normal mode and they press ff (leader in this case being space) it opens up a fuzzy finder modal. The algorithm uses a score system so that we are able to easily rank the files with the most relevant results.

I also wanted to add a file navigation bar (similar to what VSCode has when you press [ctrl]+b and so for that I needed to add an option for the user to open a directory (or folder if you’re weird ig)

• https://github.com/kashsuks/Rode/commit/66b53b9beb12fe867cd95628aac620f567ed1998 It doesn’t take long but it’s the backbone that allows me to have a file navigator

And so the actual file navigator system took me a while. I still need to figure out as to why the emojis don’t work for rust files but other than that everything seems fine!

• https://github.com/kashsuks/Rode/commit/947a94691b8e10ed931e901765d4ef9f29210260

I added text magnification detection. An issue i had before was that when you zoom in, the number lines zoom at a different rate than the text and that has been fixed!! Not only that but I started on the tab switching sytem. Its a bit buggy but its getting somewhere

I worked on text highlighting for the find and replace modal. When the user tries to find a piece of something it highlights the text and moves the whole screen to that region. I also added a command such that the user can open a file from the terminal! I also added match checking so now in the find and replace modal it shows how matches there are and which one the user is currently on!

First devlog of 2026!! I wanted to integrate a modal for Vim commands. It’s based on a Neovim plugin that I really enjoyed using and decided to integrate that into CatEditor!! I also added cursor position saving so that if you move columns and go up or down, it saves the position of that column!

This session added quite a lot of stuff! I worked on a find and replace system where if the user pressed command + f it opens up the modal and they can find and replace text. I also fixed an issue where the line numbers would double up after they go past, like number 9. I also fixed up the command palette and made the suggestion box real. It is yet to work, but it’s getting there! Another extremely important thing i worked on was restructuring the project. I put the files into sub directories so that it’s easy to scale!

I spent quite a while fixing issues that Dodge suggested for the theme loader. It uses a config system that doesn’t load every second; rather, the user has to either force-reload the app or quit and reopen. Not only that, but I also started working on the command palette feature. It’s very scrappy, but I got it to a point where pressing cmd + comma makes a little box pop up, it dims the background and has a field for entering text, and then the results box. I haven’t actually gotten to work on the suggestions and make proper suggestions, but uh yeah! I really like where this is going, but tomorrow I’m going to work on cleaning up some consistency with unused vars as well as making sure my project structure is scalable!

I spent quite a while working on fixing more cursor issues since it kept bugging out 50% of the time. After that was fixed, I worked on integrating catppuccin into the editor as the native colour scheme! I plan on making a scripting language or just editing source files so that the user can have their own themes in the future.

I wrote up the code for the vim movement motions (which took up wayyyyyyyyyy too much time) and I also added cursor that is visible in the different modes (insert, normal, etc)! The app is also in full screen by default!

I started working on the project. I used egui in rust in order to first render a box and then kept iterating it. I got number lines, a top menu bar, some vim motions, a cleaned up ui, and fullscreen. It’s still very buggy but its somewhat useable