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I'm curious, how old do you think I am?
Oh damn, I very much misread your message as "I'm 19 and using my own-" Yeah, okay you have 10 years of dogfooding ahead of me X) Sorry. Still, goals.
One of the best kept secret and one that he should have tried is "Kate". Good old style editor that is a native app, not an electron app. All the features that you might want and more, but simple and efficient. And the most important for me, super snappy. I can't bear the latency that you get for typing code when using things like vscode. I don't know how people can appreciate that.
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I'm quite partial to Zed. Very snappy, and you can turn off all the AI features globally if you like.
Zed is a no go in my book until they learn to respect their users and stop installing third party software* without asking. Completely unacceptable practice, and their reason of "most people will want LSPs to be there without effort" doesn't cut it. * nodejs specifically, but it wouldn't be ok no matter what the software was. It's my computer, not yours, don't download and run stuff without getting permission.
But what percentage of users of a document editor would say "don't install pdf stuff on my computer without asking, I don't need to export to pdf"
Installing dependencies for popular features is very much the norm. It's mainstream software.
The same complaint would be made for VSCode and Jetbrains - the most popular IDEs
https://github.com/antirez/kilo
There's a nice tutorial for it
https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
Great way to learn more about terminal modes and write some raw C
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You can already do this in vim. Pretty easy to shell out to whatever command you want and use the result for various purposes.
That's still built on top of the hardcoded vim design choices though. For example, I really like the "select then edit" approach of Helix, but Vim doesn't really play nice with that (there may be better plugins since I last looked to be fair). File handling, buffer rendering, and frames have very little to do with that, and yet I have to switch editors, lose all my plugins and configurations, and switch all those sub…
FWIW though if that's what's important to you, I get the sense that kakoune is much more vim-like in making it easy to compose with other tools, while being set up for your preferred editing model.
One of the best kept secret and one that he should have tried is "Kate". Good old style editor that is a native app, not an electron app. All the features that you might want and more, but simple and efficient. And the most important for me, super snappy. I can't bear the latency that you get for typing code when using things like vscode. I don't know how people can appreciate that.
I know this is just one data point, but I don't notice any latency when typing code in VS Code. It takes a while to start up, and that is annoying especially for quick short editing jobs, but other than that I never notice any sluggishness. Is this something many people experience?
But I always noticed this latency for everyone I ever saw using vscode or computer that I tried.
To be clear, you might easily not notice it if you are used to that and don't know better. And it is consistent with most electron based apps or editors. But there is a very subtile latency between the time you hit the key in the keyboard and the time that it appears on screen. Basically you are typing letters a little bit in advance. With Kate it is like with a basic text edit, characters appears instantly.
The effect is the same when you type anything in web browsers. In form, editor or whatever.
This was so nice to read, I've been trying to encourage my friends to write their own editors, there's something really nice about the process of working within your own tool. I've used my own text editor(it's call Left) for nearly 10 years, it took time to get it just right, but I iterated over the years(using Left to edit Left) but that time I spent putting it together is paid back 20x by the joy it gives me openin…
I laughed out loud when the author wrote 'it replaced nano'. So you are claiming to have tried dozens of editors, discarded them, only to land on nano as your daily driver? If that's true, this person must be a character.
I, too, mourn the death of Howl. It was a quirky yet surprisingly "comfortable" editor. But I am now at home with Helix and Flow Control.
I laughed out loud when the author wrote 'it replaced nano'. So you are claiming to have tried dozens of editors, discarded them, only to land on nano as your daily driver? If that's true, this person must be a character.