In what sense is "retro-futuristic"? Colour scheme?
Onivim 2 – A retro-futuristic modal editor
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#22I made a joke to a colleague about 20 years ago that they’d rewrite vim in JavaScript one day.
It’s no longer funny.
Edit: comment retracted. I am an idiot. Left here because I’m not a revisionist.
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#23In what sense is "retro-futuristic"? Colour scheme?
I think vim is the retro part...
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#24I always have to laugh when someone uses the words "ergonomics" and "vim" in the same sentence...
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#25Looks like the last release was in April? It's something I'd be interested in paying for, but only if it's being actively developed?
The project is acively developed, you can have a look at its repository: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/
I think they are doing quite a good job, the editor is blazing fast and you can already use almost seamlessly many VScode plugins. It is clearly still a developer preview, with a number of rough edges, but the devs are very reactive on the issues and on the discord channel.
I bought it in the very early days to support the project. I still cannot use it as my main editor, but I have been using it more and more recently (I am using the nightly version).
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#26I made a joke to a colleague about 20 years ago that they’d rewrite vim in JavaScript one day. It’s no longer funny. Edit: comment retracted. I am an idiot. Left here because I’m not a revisionist.
It's not written in JavaScript.
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#27I always have to laugh when someone uses the words "ergonomics" and "vim" in the same sentence...
Modal editors are mostly one key at a time. That is much easier to 'ergonomize' than chords, more so if you are not using a US keyboard.
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#28I can't view their patreon without creating a user, but I am curious about what their pricing is and I assume it is listed there. Anyone got the inside scoop?
> Supporter
> €4.50 per month (sold out!)
> Thank you for your monthly support of Onivim 2!
> This tier gets:
> - Access to downloadable builds
> - Month-to-month commercial use license
This information was not on the donation page, so I went with 1 buck. Never used Patreon before and I now don't know how to change my donation.
This is a pretty bad onboarding. I'm willing to pay, at least for a month, just to try this, but it is ... hard.
edit: I found it, upped my donation to 5€, still can't download. Somethings broken here.
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#29I always have to laugh when someone uses the words "ergonomics" and "vim" in the same sentence...
A misguided laugh?
Vim is highly ergnomic for the task it was made to do. Whether it was designed as such or it was a happy accident is orthogonal.
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#30If this is in the github editor, or a new jupyter frontend, that would be cool. An app replaced my neovim setup? No thanks.