Design of a Vim-like text editor
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Design of a Vim-like text editor
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Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#2Very interesting. I also found quiet a lot of inspiration from reading about the Oberon system. This author was inspired by the text editor, I was more interested in the language. The author uses 'peice chains' as opposed to a gap buffer which was new to me.
I'm sure many will say, why another editor? I say why not? Looks like a fun project.
Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#3I've been using Vim for over a decade. I love it. But I feel more and more anachronistic every time I have to hunt down some Vim plug-in for whatever IDE I'm setting up.
I'd love to see a fresh take on hyper-efficient text editing in modern GUI environments.
Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#4Why not write a rich-text editor instead?
Or a webbrowser?
Seriously. They seem like more interesting endeavours to me. Especially if you document every step of the way. In fact, you could write a book about it.
Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#5Why not write a rich-text editor instead? Or a webbrowser? Seriously. They seem like more interesting endeavours to me. Especially if you document every step of the way. In fact, you could write a book about it.
Writing from scratch is the way of suckless. :)
Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#6I've been using Vim for over a decade. I love it. But I feel more and more anachronistic every time I have to hunt down some Vim plug-in for whatever IDE I'm setting up. I'd love to see a fresh take on hyper-efficient text editing in modern GUI environments.
Well, with Neovim, we'll have a legit fully-featured plugin for any and all IDEs that do plugins. I sincerely can't wait to have Neovim in IntelliJ/RubyMine/CursiveClojure.
Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#7Great idea! I wonder why you aren't using github (or bitbucket, etc) for hosting the project. I personally think that early projects can benefit from tools like that, since people can follow the progress (issues, bugfixes, etc) and access the code without cloning the repo.
Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#8Great idea! I wonder why you aren't using github (or bitbucket, etc) for hosting the project. I personally think that early projects can benefit from tools like that, since people can follow the progress (issues, bugfixes, etc) and access the code without cloning the repo.
GitHub etc does not really fit into suckless' minimalist philosophy
Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#9Why not write a rich-text editor instead? Or a webbrowser? Seriously. They seem like more interesting endeavours to me. Especially if you document every step of the way. In fact, you could write a book about it.
http://surf.suckless.org/ is already a thing.
Re: Design of a Vim-like text editor
#10Great idea! I wonder why you aren't using github (or bitbucket, etc) for hosting the project. I personally think that early projects can benefit from tools like that, since people can follow the progress (issues, bugfixes, etc) and access the code without cloning the repo.
It actually is on GitHub[0]. I'm not sure why it wasn't mentioned in the mailing list.