I'm interested. I don't think it's far enough along for me yet (.vimrc support), but I'll be keeping an eye on it.
I really like the "Outline" view, as I'm often editing large files and would find this extremely useful.
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#32Does it really have INSTANT startup time (i.e. Sublime Text)? If it has, I'm interested. Was not able to find the trial though.
$ time /opt/oni/Onivim2.AppDir/usr/bin/Oni2 --nofork --silent -c qa
real 0m0,360s
user 0m0,280s
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#33Isn’t this VS Code with the Vim extension?
Seems like it's Vim with a VS Code extension/adapter instead.
Intriguing idea, though not sure how viable.
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#34What does this offer that evil-mode emacs, or even vscode, has to offer...?
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#35I really wanted to like Onivim 2, but went back to Visual Studio code after supporting the creator on Patreon for a while. The last build and creator update was provided months ago for supporters.
I also wanted to vote against the pricing model, because I think it should be a one time purchase. The creator and his company behind the editor tries to create a serious FOMO on likely customers. I considered it to be a red flag on a potential abandonment. Additionally, I felt it would be easier for Visual Studio code become faster than Onivim 2 can have support for all Visual Studio code extensions.
On the plus side, Onivim 2 has some smart defaults which made it a joy to use. I encourage anyone who thinks about buying Onivim 2 to first learn how to fine tune VS Code to look and feel like Onivim 2 because you can.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Also, there is VIM mode for VS Code, I guess. I feel like this is something said by people who are more invested in VS Code than vim. The main vim plugin for VS Code is straight trash.* It's slow, buggy, and unintuitive; while lacking the extensibility that vim has. At least IDEAVim, which has the same limitations of being built in another IDE, replicates enough of the common plugins to be pleasant. It's also worth…
> but implementing a vim backend is a monumental task if you intend to be compatible with existing vim plugins We skipped that and haven't implemented any vim backend at all! We use/made libvim[1], which is just the vim source, that we've essentially turned into a library. So its the vim code base with terminal UI stuff stripped out, and an interface added for us to hook into it. The README of that repo has some good…
“We skipped that and haven't implemented any vim backend at all ... so its the vim code base with terminal UI stuff stripped out, and an interface added for us to hook into it.”
You took out the most important part!
I don’t know about other people, but I became a vim user because I found myself configuring servers and needed to know a better text editor than nano.
Vim is also my primary code editor these days but portability is still a killer feature.
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#37What's most interesting for me here is Revery, the GUI framework. React-like, cross-platform, native-code, MIT-licensed. Yes, it's not using native widgets (so no built-in accessibility), but that might be fine in many cases.
Looking forward to seeing it displace Electron.
Back in the days, I would have bet on Revery as Electron replacement.
But currently, Tauri seems like a more viable option.
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#38Honestly, melting two open source editors together (or rather cloning one while integrating the other) and ask for that amount of money for it is in my opinion unacceptable. The only thing that would make this a bit more acceptable is when the developers are promising to spend a lot of their earnings for vim development (and maybe VSCode, too). *edit:* Just saw that it is actually open source and will be available fo…
Onivim doesn’t use vscode. It’s a from scratch implementation that doesn’t use electron, but they do replicate the vscode plugin system so they can be compatible with it.
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#39What does this offer that evil-mode emacs, or even vscode, has to offer...?
If every text editor has to implement full emacs functionality, every alternate text editor project should just stop now.
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#40Aside, I see it has tabs as defaults- what are people’s thoughts on tabbed editors?