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Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by nerdponx »

cbkeller wrote: post #8
mario0b1 wrote: post #6

>A modal, keyboard-driven interface inspired by Vim that makes navigating and editing text fast. But what does it do different than vim? Having competition is good, but I don't see any "that's why you should use amp and not vim"-reason. Where is it?

Sounds like navigation might be different, but the linked page is a bit cryptic: > Fast, precise cursor movement without repetitive keystrokes or fancy expressions. Look where you'd like to move, and type the token. That's it. Digging a bit more, I found this [1] (in addition to the normal h,j,k,l, etc.): > Jump Mode > Press f to switch to jump mode. Elements on-screen will be prefixed with a two character jump token…

This is similar to the vim-sneak plugin for Vim: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

It's very useful.

Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by mbudde »

apas wrote: post #12

Installed it and played around for a bit. Nice work overall. Amp's jump mode (press `f` and elements in the buffer will be prefixed with a two character jump token) is pretty cool. Would love to see this in Vim.

This plugin is working quite well for me: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by _ikke_ »

apas wrote: post #12

Installed it and played around for a bit. Nice work overall. Amp's jump mode (press `f` and elements in the buffer will be prefixed with a two character jump token) is pretty cool. Would love to see this in Vim.

The [EasyMotion][0] plugin provides this. It has several modes to select where you want to jump to.

[0]:https://vimawesome.com/plugin/easymotion

Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by [deleted] »

nerdponx wrote: post #11
cbkeller wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like navigation might be different, but the linked page is a bit cryptic: > Fast, precise cursor movement without repetitive keystrokes or fancy expressions. Look where you'd like to move, and type the token. That's it. Digging a bit more, I found this [1] (in addition to the normal h,j,k,l, etc.): > Jump Mode > Press f to switch to jump mode. Elements on-screen will be prefixed with a two character jump token…

This is similar to the vim-sneak plugin for Vim: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak It's very useful.

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Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by GordonS »

mariusmg wrote: post #4

Micro is nice too https://github.com/zyedidia/micro (been using it daily for a few months now).

I recently discovered this too. I'd been using nano as my default terminal text editor for years, but micro is a nice upgrade - I especially like the undo feature, the syntax highlighting, and the mouse support.

Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by Cyphase »

mario0b1 wrote: post #6

>A modal, keyboard-driven interface inspired by Vim that makes navigating and editing text fast. But what does it do different than vim? Having competition is good, but I don't see any "that's why you should use amp and not vim"-reason. Where is it?

I think one of the main reasons it exists is that it's written in Rust. One clue is that the TLD is .rs, plus there's been a lot of "a written in Rust" lately. Which is fine; it's just an observation. I myself am going to be getting into Rust soon, hopefully.

Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by lazerwalker »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #9
josteink wrote: post #7

Maybe choose another name? I mean: Good luck trying to out-SEO Google re-using their own term[1] :) [1] https://www.ampproject.org/

If it’s anything like emacs or vim it will surely outlive Amp and hopefully Google as well

"If it's anything like emacs or vim" is a very ambitious goal.
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