https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/ Recent content in Developers on Kaivalya Editor Hugo -- gohugo.io en https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/getting-started/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/getting-started/ What you need Kaivalya Editor is a Rust program with a GPU-accelerated UI, so it needs a Rust toolchain and the development files for Wayland, xkbcommon and Vulkan. On Ubuntu 24.04: sudo apt install cmake clang mold vulkan-tools libwayland-dev \ libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libvulkan-dev libasound2-dev Install Rust with rustup. The version is pinned by rust-toolchain.toml and rustup will fetch it for you. mold is a faster linker, and clang is what invokes it. https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/how-to-guides/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/how-to-guides/ Each recipe is a task, start to finish. For what each part is, see the Technical reference; for why, see Understanding the architecture. A change is done when the code is written, its tests cover the paths that fail as well as the one that works, its cost is measured where a budget applies, and the documentation says so — in English and in French. Add a setting Add the field to Settings in crates/kve-config/src/settings. https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/build-on-windows/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/build-on-windows/ Untested — at your own risk. Nothing on this page has been run on Windows. The editor’s libraries were checked to compile for it, from Linux; the window itself has never been built, let alone started, there. Expect it not to work, and expect nobody to have seen why. Kaivalya Editor is written on Linux and released for Linux. Windows is not supported: there is no download for it, and nobody tests it there before a release. https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/technical/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/technical/ This page describes each part of Kaivalya Editor as it is. To build it for the first time, see Getting started; for a task — adding a setting, a command, a benchmark — see the How-to guides; for why it is built this way, see Understanding the architecture. AI authorship. Most of the source code was written by an AI assistant (Claude), directed, reviewed and decided by the human author. https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/understanding-the-architecture/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://kaivalya.eu/projects/editor/en/developers/understanding-the-architecture/ One crate imports the UI framework gpui is pre-1.0 and its API moves. The single most valuable structural decision in this project is that only kve-ui imports it. Everything below is headless and testable without a window, which is what makes the project’s definition of done — functional tests including the non-happy paths — affordable rather than aspirational. Crate kve-core The rope buffer, cursor positions, edits and undo. No UI. kve-config Settings, the command registry, and the translations.