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Related: #29

Users should be able to define their own key bindings through the configuration file.

A nice addition would be to have a separate status bar containing the active users.

Would this work:

• The clients would have a local list of active clients
• Every time a new client joins, the server broadcasts this as a message to the clients
• The clients update their local state with the newly-added user
• The editor displays the list

The other way would be to use the server's existing activeClients map, but the clients might need to fetch the list at specific intervals from the server.

Exporting content to a file, and importing content from that file would be a nice addition.

Right now, the cursor movement happens using the left and right arrow keys.

For a better user experience, navigation using the up and down arrow keys would be nice to have.

I have a basic idea on how it would work:

• compute the length of each "block"/segment inside the editor
• get the largest block, and set the max length to the block's length
• use the max length to "pad" other blocks virtually
• now, safely compute cursor positions
• incase the cursor position "overflows", set the cursor to the block's end_pos + 1

Users should be able to use a configuration file to customize the editor.

Here is an example:

theme = "onedark"

[editor]
word-wrap=false

As shown in the video, as the bottom editor inserts and deletes, the top editor's cursor moves backwards and forwards. The cursor position should be updated as remote edits come in (so that the cursor stays on the 'h' in this example).

Another example of incorrect behavior. The bottom editor's cursor should stay on the 'w' as the top editor inserts and deletes characters.