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It’s the first editor I’m seriously giving a try as a hardcore, many years vim user.
If you want a more vim like behavior you can play with my patches: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pulls/mitsuhiko
Other than Kakoune, is there anything else in this vein? Preferably not written in Rust?
https://github.com/martanne/vis
I found this quote from the page linked by that repo's README about what "structural regexps" are:
“The current UNIX® text processing tools are weakened by the built-in concept of a line. There is a simple notation that can describe the `shape' of files when the typical array-of-lines picture is inadequate. That notation is regular expressions. Using regular expressions to describe the structure in addition to the contents of files has interesting applications, and yields elegant methods for dealing with some problems the current tools handle clumsily. When operations using these expressions are composed, the result is reminiscent of shell pipelines.”
Seems like a rather insightful understanding and domain-widening effort when it comes to manipulating programs. I've always wanted something like paredit, but for everything else besides lisps.
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"Not written in Rust"? Is Rust at that level on the hype-curve by now? :-D
It's just notably bad for beginners, and getting worse all the time. I've been in software for over three decades and I haven't seen the obsession this bad since Java, which has apparently come a long way towards UX, and also didn't ever put out new BS every six weeks that I can recall. Rust on the other hand, is an absolute nightmare for beginners. I've spent a lot of time throughout my career working with non-progr…
And if you do want to contribute I’m reasonably certain that helix by virtue of how it’s programmed is the easiest to contribute to I have come across.
Having to switch between "normal" and "insert" modes all the time is one of the things that turns me off from vi and its family tree, and is consequently something that turns me off of Helix, too. There are a lot of neat ideas here, though, and I wonder how many could be hacked into other editors like Emacs.
I’m the same way- my MacBook trackpad is closer to my fingers than the escape key! Not to mention, in VSCode I can do anything with the command palette with cmd+P without the need for separate modes and without the need to memorize a million shortcuts. If I know the first letter or two of the command, then it’s only 3 keystrokes away. For example, “Evaluate Math Expression” is “cmd+shift+p”+”ev”+”enter”. The command…
Similar deal for me in Emacs, especially with things like ivy or helm. Pretty much anything more complex than an existing keystroke is a simple M(eta)-x and a couple letters (and spaces for wildcards). My setup even extends that to search results, opening files, you name it.
Something like Vim or Helix could probably get most of the way there by defaulting to "insert" mode and having some keystroke like Esc or M-x to temporarily switch into a "command" mode.
Having to switch between "normal" and "insert" modes all the time is one of the things that turns me off from vi and its family tree, and is consequently something that turns me off of Helix, too. There are a lot of neat ideas here, though, and I wonder how many could be hacked into other editors like Emacs.
I’m the same way- my MacBook trackpad is closer to my fingers than the escape key! Not to mention, in VSCode I can do anything with the command palette with cmd+P without the need for separate modes and without the need to memorize a million shortcuts. If I know the first letter or two of the command, then it’s only 3 keystrokes away. For example, “Evaluate Math Expression” is “cmd+shift+p”+”ev”+”enter”. The command…
Be careful though, just because you are used to doing something in a specific way, doesn't mean that your way of doing it is superior!
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"Not written in Rust"? Is Rust at that level on the hype-curve by now? :-D
It's just notably bad for beginners, and getting worse all the time. I've been in software for over three decades and I haven't seen the obsession this bad since Java, which has apparently come a long way towards UX, and also didn't ever put out new BS every six weeks that I can recall. Rust on the other hand, is an absolute nightmare for beginners. I've spent a lot of time throughout my career working with non-progr…
There is obviously a bit of upfront investment, but it's comparable to most other languages (less than C++, for example). I have a much easier time writing rust than C, for example, and I'm a very mediocre programmer.
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Remap capslock to CTRL when held and ESC when tapped. Good idea for vim too
Looks interesting. I've always remapped capslock to CTRL myself, of course, but haven't thought of remapping tap-capslock to ESC. It looks like you need external software to do this though (like Karabiner Elements on mac, or xcape on linux, etc). (That being said, if you're used to jk/kj/fd/jj/jf, many years of muscle memory would still take a while to erase...)
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"Not written in Rust"? Is Rust at that level on the hype-curve by now? :-D
It's just notably bad for beginners, and getting worse all the time. I've been in software for over three decades and I haven't seen the obsession this bad since Java, which has apparently come a long way towards UX, and also didn't ever put out new BS every six weeks that I can recall. Rust on the other hand, is an absolute nightmare for beginners. I've spent a lot of time throughout my career working with non-progr…
My project advances the state of the art, your project publishes updates, his project puts out new BS.[0]
Also, I'd like to know whoever's recommending Rust for _beginners_? Nobody should be doing that. Not even the most hardcore fan I know would push that.
Long-time Vim/NeoVim user here...about 20 or so years with it being my daily driver for the last 8. As soon as I found Helix, I was unsure whether it would become my new editor, but I've been using it every day for a few months and haven't really looked back. The only thing I still use Vim for is `vimdiff` with Git, but I don't think I need to, just been lazy about configuring Helix to do the same thing. Helix does e…
The machinery developed in that PR contains most of the heavy lifting for implementing a vimdiff tool. The only thing that is missing is support in the rendering system to display them. I will be collaborating with one of the maintainers to make that happen as well so we will get a diff mode in helix sooner rather then later.
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Emacs is under constant improvement and so are it’s many packages. Emacs looks like modern Emacs
Doom Emacs looks like modern Emacs.