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+# Breed
+
+Breed is a minimalistic modal editor inspired by Helix, but hopefully without
+all of the extra junk I don't care about.
+
+It would be really neat for it to support LSP, Treesitter, and kakoune-like
+client-server operation.
+
+# To-Do List
+
+- [ ] detect correct syntax from file info
+- [ ] word and WORD navigation
+- [ ] config file
+- [ ] keybind modifiers
+- [ ] better submode key rendering
+- [ ] tab insertion
+- [ ] treesitter support
+- [ ] LSP support
+- [ ] keybind configuration
+- [ ] page up and page down
+- [ ] selection/visual mode
+- [ ] multicursor
+- [ ] command callbacks
+- [ ] configurable autoscroll margins
+- [ ] configurable newline hide
+- [ ] `:theme`
+- [ ] copy/cut/paste
+- [ ] mouse input
+- [ ] theme style modifiers
+- [ ] configurable indents
+- [ ] client/server with UDS socket