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Re: Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

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Post by jakecopp »

scrollaway wrote: post #47
pault wrote: post #18

I've been using Oni for the last few weeks as my daily driver (I liked it so much I signed up as a monthly sponsor), and here's my take on it: It's a fairly new project, but it's under _very_ active development. There's an excellent community building around it and I think we will be seeing some really great progress over the next year. That said, it isn't anywhere close to feature parity with vscode, but the value p…

Urgh, this is so infuriating. Oni looks fantastic if it can deliver on what it does, but the infuriating part really is VSCode in all this. Code is a great editor/IDE and has a huge amount of development backing and now a pretty large market share as well, which means inertia. But the vim bindings for it are just garbage . They are slow, make the editor feel sluggish, they don't work "quite right", etc. No kidding th…

How does VSCode Vim bindings compare to Vintage mode in Sublime?

I like the idea of Oni, but I also love that Sublime is native (I'm already running FF Quantum, I can't burn too much more battery!). I know Sublime's Vim keybindings aren't that complete.

Re: Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

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Post by RobertRoberts »

https://github.com/onivim/oni/wiki/Language-Support

Why do I need NPM to install vue.js as a language for Oni? Can anyone explain why I would want to bother with this editor if it requires Node.js?

Edit: I've tried all the other Electron based editors, and I don't recall a single one requiring Node.js/NPM to install anything.

Re: Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

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Post by k_ »

rocqua wrote: post #41
theon144 wrote: post #21

Electron frontend is precisely the thing I really don't want from a tool like vim...

Note that, according to others in this thread, it is not running in full browser mode, with the backend using javascript. Instead, it is using electron just for rendering. People here claim this is a lot better for performance. I've no personal experience to verify this.

I'd tend to agree with GP, but this seems interesting.

I'll give it a try, although not with great hopes performance-wise but oni may be a good compromise between nvim and good lsp designed for vscode (like haxe lsp which struggles on nvim).

Re: Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

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Post by djur »

ziikutv wrote: post #53
djur wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For 1, there's https://github.com/elixir-editors/vim-elixir .

Is that compatible with the editor OP is talking about? To clarify, that’s what above feedback was for. I don’t understand why people downvote comments without even knowing the context of the conversation.

Yes, Oni is just an alternate frontend for vim and is compatible with Vim plugins (instructions here: https://github.com/onivim/oni/wiki/Plugins#installing-a-vim-...). I don't think there was anything wrong with your comment that merited downvotes.

Re: Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

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Post by ComputerGuru »

pault wrote: post #39
phonebucket wrote: post #12

This cropped up several months ago on here, see here for the comments from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060417

It's disappointing to see that 90% of the comments there are people arguing about electron.

It’s a valid point. Lots of people use vim for its sheer speed, which you throw out with the bath water when switch to electron.

Re: Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

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Post by gnulinux »

scrollaway wrote: post #47
pault wrote: post #18

I've been using Oni for the last few weeks as my daily driver (I liked it so much I signed up as a monthly sponsor), and here's my take on it: It's a fairly new project, but it's under _very_ active development. There's an excellent community building around it and I think we will be seeing some really great progress over the next year. That said, it isn't anywhere close to feature parity with vscode, but the value p…

Urgh, this is so infuriating. Oni looks fantastic if it can deliver on what it does, but the infuriating part really is VSCode in all this. Code is a great editor/IDE and has a huge amount of development backing and now a pretty large market share as well, which means inertia. But the vim bindings for it are just garbage . They are slow, make the editor feel sluggish, they don't work "quite right", etc. No kidding th…

How does VSCode vim plugins compared to evil-mode of emacs?

Re: Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

#68

Post by Funnnny »

gnulinux wrote: post #67
scrollaway wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Urgh, this is so infuriating. Oni looks fantastic if it can deliver on what it does, but the infuriating part really is VSCode in all this. Code is a great editor/IDE and has a huge amount of development backing and now a pretty large market share as well, which means inertia. But the vim bindings for it are just garbage . They are slow, make the editor feel sluggish, they don't work "quite right", etc. No kidding th…

How does VSCode vim plugins compared to evil-mode of emacs?

evil-mode is actually useful. VSCode's vim plugin loads really slow when you change project, doesn't have proper insert/normal/visual mode map, etc.

Re: Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim

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Post by terraforming »

I installed it and loaded my init.vim. It is just so slow. I'm a pretty heavy user of snippets, and it honestly takes like 1 second for my snippets to appear after I call them.

Nvim desparetely needs a good GUI. Ever GUI I've tried (I think I've tried all of them) lags when calling snippets.

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