Zoeae is a small, native desktop text editor written in Rust. It's a learning project focused on building a fast, minimal editor with a Markdown preview capability — an experimental alternative to lightweight editors like Notepad with built-in preview features.

Features

Lightweight editor: fast startup and minimal UI surface.
Markdown preview: live or on-demand preview of Markdown files.
Cross-platform Rust codebase: implemented in Rust (see src/).

Install

Pre-built artifacts and installers are published on GitHub Releases. See the releases page for the latest published assets:

Usage

Launch the binary and open files from the app UI or run the binary directly from the terminal.

License

See LICENSE.txt for license details.

Contributing

Contributions, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome. Please open issues or pull requests on GitHub.

Build

Install Rust toolchain (recommended via rustup) with cargo. For Windows: have a working C toolchain (MSVC or GNU) if building native dependencies.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/StevanFreeborn/zoeae.git
cd zoeae

Build (release)

cargo build --release

Note

The built binary will be in target/release/ (e.g. target/release/zoeae).

Run (debug)

cargo run

Install locally

cargo install --path .

Note

This installs the zoeae binary into your Cargo bin directory (usually ~/.cargo/bin).