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Re: Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

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Post by suprfnk »

city41 wrote: post #28
ravenide wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love vim and have never met someone who used it more fluently than me. Yet I find it lacking. I can never get IDE features like code navigation and completion to really work. I use YouCompleteMe like everyone else but it’s just not as good as Jetbrains. It randomly stops working. Parameter hints don’t really work. This is for C++, by the way. The JavaScript situation is even worse. My dream is also for vim to be th…

I agree. I've been using vim for about a decade now. I love the editing experience. I really dislike the "IDE" experience (plugins, file navigation, etc). I've been seriously considering writing a new vim clone in go and build what I would consider the ultimate editor. Basically as if vim had been written today.

Have you tried emacs with evil-mode? It could save you a lot of trouble, as the ultimate editor is already written. ;-)

Re: Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

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Post by city41 »

suprfnk wrote: post #71
city41 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. I've been using vim for about a decade now. I love the editing experience. I really dislike the "IDE" experience (plugins, file navigation, etc). I've been seriously considering writing a new vim clone in go and build what I would consider the ultimate editor. Basically as if vim had been written today.

Have you tried emacs with evil-mode? It could save you a lot of trouble, as the ultimate editor is already written. ;-)

Oh them's fightin' words. Actually I have tried evil mode. Although it's been years since I last did. I remember it being one of the better vim emulators out there. I should give it another go.

Re: Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

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Post by 7786655 »

mttrms wrote: post #53
ravenide wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love vim and have never met someone who used it more fluently than me. Yet I find it lacking. I can never get IDE features like code navigation and completion to really work. I use YouCompleteMe like everyone else but it’s just not as good as Jetbrains. It randomly stops working. Parameter hints don’t really work. This is for C++, by the way. The JavaScript situation is even worse. My dream is also for vim to be th…

I love Vim, but since I started working in TypeScript/React every day it is basically unusable (syntax highlighting / code formatting cannot match VSCode) so I'm now running VSCode + Vim extension which is kinda meh, but serviceable. One of these days I will get around to contributing to a Vim plugin or two to help improve Typescript / TSX support.

I've had a different experience. Neovim + coc-tsserver and a syntax highlighting plugin works really well, and VSCode + Vim extension is unbelievably slow on my machine.

Re: Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

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Post by WiiManic »

dang wrote: post #69

See also, if curious, from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16673267

And if its not obvious, the links are for Onivim1, rather than Oni2.

There is a somewhat out of date document on the motivation behind starting Oni2 here: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/blob/master/docs/MOTIVATION.m...

The big changes from Oni1 to Oni2:

- We moved from Typescript/Electron to ReasonML/Revery for a native rendering stack which is much faster (startup/in general) and generally lighter weight, with a solid FFI story for native libs (Like libvim below, but also stuff like tree-sitter etc).

- We moved from neovim via RPC to libvim, a fork of vim as a library, with motivation behind that change in the doc above, and why vim over nvim in the GitHub README for libvim.

This is allowing us to bring forward the things people liked in Oni1, but drop stuff that people didn't, with Electron being an obvious big one. The end result, combined with harnessing the VSCode ecosystem should hopefully make a compelling editor.

Re: Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

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Post by mttrms »

7786655 wrote: post #73
mttrms wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Vim, but since I started working in TypeScript/React every day it is basically unusable (syntax highlighting / code formatting cannot match VSCode) so I'm now running VSCode + Vim extension which is kinda meh, but serviceable. One of these days I will get around to contributing to a Vim plugin or two to help improve Typescript / TSX support.

I've had a different experience. Neovim + coc-tsserver and a syntax highlighting plugin works really well, and VSCode + Vim extension is unbelievably slow on my machine.

Which syntax highlighting plugin(s) are you using? Do you have syntax highlighting for functional components/hooks in .tsx files / can you share a config? Would love to give it a try.

I have spent many hours trying to get that work with no success. I've searched public .vimrc configs on github using typescript plugins and none of them gave me any type of syntax highlighting that compared to VSCode.

Re: Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

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Post by 7786655 »

mttrms wrote: post #75
7786655 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had a different experience. Neovim + coc-tsserver and a syntax highlighting plugin works really well, and VSCode + Vim extension is unbelievably slow on my machine.

Which syntax highlighting plugin(s) are you using? Do you have syntax highlighting for functional components/hooks in .tsx files / can you share a config? Would love to give it a try. I have spent many hours trying to get that work with no success. I've searched public .vimrc configs on github using typescript plugins and none of them gave me any type of syntax highlighting that compared to VSCode.

I haven't used VSCode enough to consider myself knowledgeable about it's syntax highlighting or auto-indentation, so caveat emptor.

I use CoC.nvim using the coc-tsserver plugin to get Typescript completion/jump to definition etc, ALE to get ESLint warnings, HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim (A Typescript syntax, Neovim comes bundled with this, but the bundled version might be out of date), and maxmellon/vim-jsx-pretty for JSX syntax highlighting and indentation (vim-jsx-pretty's auto indentation is not 100%, but it works well enough).

My colorscheme is tomasiser/vim-code-dark, in case that matters. Example screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/6UzKtU2.png

Re: Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

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Post by mttrms »

7786655 wrote: post #76
mttrms wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which syntax highlighting plugin(s) are you using? Do you have syntax highlighting for functional components/hooks in .tsx files / can you share a config? Would love to give it a try. I have spent many hours trying to get that work with no success. I've searched public .vimrc configs on github using typescript plugins and none of them gave me any type of syntax highlighting that compared to VSCode.

I haven't used VSCode enough to consider myself knowledgeable about it's syntax highlighting or auto-indentation, so caveat emptor. I use CoC.nvim using the coc-tsserver plugin to get Typescript completion/jump to definition etc, ALE to get ESLint warnings, HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim (A Typescript syntax, Neovim comes bundled with this, but the bundled version might be out of date), and maxmellon/vim-jsx-pretty for…

Thanks for sharing! My current setup is:

Plug 'HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim'

Plug 'mhartington/nvim-typescript', { 'do': './install.sh' }

Plug 'pangloss/vim-javascript'

Plug 'maxmellon/vim-jsx-pretty'

Not too far off, but different.

I'll adjust a bit and see how it looks on some production code.

Re: Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor

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Post by lefrenchy »

mttrms wrote: post #75
7786655 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had a different experience. Neovim + coc-tsserver and a syntax highlighting plugin works really well, and VSCode + Vim extension is unbelievably slow on my machine.

Which syntax highlighting plugin(s) are you using? Do you have syntax highlighting for functional components/hooks in .tsx files / can you share a config? Would love to give it a try. I have spent many hours trying to get that work with no success. I've searched public .vimrc configs on github using typescript plugins and none of them gave me any type of syntax highlighting that compared to VSCode.

I’ve had success with my config, it’s kind of large and i’m slowly slimming it down. But maybe it will help.

https://github.com/monsonjeremy/dotfiles/tree/master/config/...

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