acme VS Vis

Everyone should try Acme for a month and then go back to your favourite editor. http://acme.cat-v.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Hmm, so while he was busy optimizing and learning and tweaking his keyboard setup, others invent game changing programming languages like Go, and then also write text editors that make heavy use of the mouse, and of mouse chording: http://acme.cat-v.org/ So I’m sceptical whether this approach of spending ages on this really is that productive, cost-benefit-wise. Usually it doesn’t stop there, but this optimization... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Uzbl (https://www.uzbl.org/) used to do that but it seems it was too heavy in practice. Today I'm more interestea in turning the web into a more textual format to integrate it in acme (http://acme.cat-v.org/) which is already built around modularity. Making the web a content provider and letting me interact withit the way I want. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

As you may have guessed form my username, I enjoy the acme editor. Source: 12 months ago

Back in the Plan 9 days, with the acme text editor, a non-monospace font was default and fairly common to use. Whilst I was a command line guy before and still a command line guy after, the dynamic font width wasn't *too* bad once you get used to it (Though yes, it is less efficient). Source: about 1 year ago

If you'd like to try out the sam command language yourself, there's an X11 port that works quite nicely on modern POSIX systems: https://github.com/deadpixi/sam. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

> Kakoune gives you: > Small and understandable core. > Proficiency with POSIX tools, and maybe even some programming languages other than sh. > Structural regular expressions as a central way of text manipulation. > With multiple selections created via regular expressions, acting upon regular expressions. > Fresh take on the modal editing paradigm. I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0] which imho... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

If you want an editor that uses Sam's structural regexes with keyboard-focussed vi-style interaction, you might be interested in https://github.com/martanne/vis. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Not Rust, but there's vis which aims to be a Vi(m) inspired editor with Sam's structural regular expressions. Source: 10 months ago

I do not use vim nor a WM nor a Thinkpad, but I do use vis. It's great. Source: about 1 year ago