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Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by ecthiender »

The documentation or the website doesn't list all the languages it supports, especially for jump to definition. It just says all popular languages. This is a bit concerning, because the docs also mentions no (planned) support for plug-ins yet.

FWIW, I'm interested in Haskell support. For jumping to definitions and showing type of expression under cursor.

Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by Karliss »

ecthiender wrote: post #3

The documentation or the website doesn't list all the languages it supports, especially for jump to definition. It just says all popular languages. This is a bit concerning, because the docs also mentions no (planned) support for plug-ins yet. FWIW, I'm interested in Haskell support. For jumping to definitions and showing type of expression under cursor.

First page under symbol jump states that it is based on and can be extended using .sublime-syntax format. At this point of time I was expecting language server protocol support.

Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by cbkeller »

mario0b1 wrote: post #6

>A modal, keyboard-driven interface inspired by Vim that makes navigating and editing text fast. But what does it do different than vim? Having competition is good, but I don't see any "that's why you should use amp and not vim"-reason. Where is it?

Sounds like navigation might be different, but the linked page is a bit cryptic:

> Fast, precise cursor movement without repetitive keystrokes or fancy expressions. Look where you'd like to move, and type the token. That's it.

Digging a bit more, I found this [1] (in addition to the normal h,j,k,l, etc.):

> Jump Mode

> Press f to switch to jump mode. Elements on-screen will be prefixed with a two character jump token. Type the characters to jump to the associated element.

> For files with syntax support, you can jump to class, method, and function definitions using symbol mode. Hit Enter in normal mode to use the symbol finder, which works identically to open mode

[1] https://github.com/jmacdonald/amp/blob/master/documentation/...

Re: Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

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Post by ilikehurdles »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #9
josteink wrote: post #7

Maybe choose another name? I mean: Good luck trying to out-SEO Google re-using their own term[1] :) [1] https://www.ampproject.org/

If it’s anything like emacs or vim it will surely outlive Amp and hopefully Google as well

You say that as if it’s a challenge to outlive something Google puts out.
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