Spack VS Vis

> Are we talking about the same autotools? Yes. Instead of figuring out how to do something particular with every single software package, I can do a --with-foo or --without-bar or --prefix=/opt/baz-1.2.3, and be fairly confident that it will work the way I want. Certainly with package managers or (FreeBSD) Ports a lot is taken care of behind the scenes, but the above would also help... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month 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 / 8 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 / 11 months ago

Not Rust, but there's vis which aims to be a Vi(m) inspired editor with Sam's structural regular expressions. Source: 11 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