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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.
>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?
Kakoune is Vim-like, and now this.
I honestly don't know why people would want to navigate code using jump-mode/easymotion. I've found it far more confusing than just searching for the word.
>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.
The documentation or the website doesn't list all the languages it supports, especially for jump to definition. It just says all popular languages. This is a bit concerning, because the docs also mentions no (planned) support for plug-ins yet. FWIW, I'm interested in Haskell support. For jumping to definitions and showing type of expression under cursor.
>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 do wish there were more modal, terminal-based text editors that weren't so similar to Vim. Kakoune is Vim-like, and now this.
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> modal [...] > inspired by Vim
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I honestly don't know why people would want to navigate code using jump-mode/easymotion. I've found it far more confusing than just searching for the word.
ctrl+W enter - seems you are right :D <3 nano hahah i find more complicated editors just distract with their fancies from what you are doing. inputting and deleting characters.
What I do like about the vim keys though is the ability to delete or copy/paste with precision by chaining hotkeys together.
Regarding your searching for a word example, unsurprisingly you can do the same in vi (let alone vim) too:
/ - search forwards
? - search backwards