As is probably the case with a lot of programmers, I've been searching for my "ideal" text editor for programming for quite a while now. Over the years I've picked up, configured and moved on from a long list of editors and IDEs so it was only really a matter of time before I found myself wondering how hard it would be to write my own from scratch one rainy afternoon.

Spoliers: turns out it's actually a fair amount of work. Who knew.

In 2020 during lockdown at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic I (like so many others) found myself with a lot of time on my hands. A lot of people decided to take up a new hobby, maybe do some work on their house or perhaps get a dog.

Me?

I decided to write an X11 tiling window manager.