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https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/

It’s quite a young editor but is conceptually pretty neat! It works on syntax trees as defined by tree sitter, and the tutorial on their site shows off how powerful that is pretty nicely.

I also like how it gets by with pretty much just buffers and readline for everything. I’m a bit more wary of all config happening by changing code and recompiling, though.

Definitely one I’m watching, though it’s far from being able to tempt me away from Helix at this stage.



This is nice. I like this editor, will try it out. The beginnings of a "mode" exist in vim, with plugins like tinykeymap that let you get into "tab manipulation mode" or "window manipulation mode", you can really do that with anything though, but maybe not as extensively as in Ki. It's quite a neat trick, example that lets you c-w +++++ instead of c-w + c-w +:

  nmap <C-W>+ <C-W>+<SID>ws
  nnoremap <script> <SID>ws+ 10<C-W>+<SID>ws
  nmap <SID>ws <nop>


A lot of these new editors do things that Emacs does quite easily while losing all of Emacs's other advantages. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/combobulate-structure...


Honestly I think being narrower in scope and less (or at least more simply) programmable/configurable than emacs is a pro not a con 95% of the time.


Nothing is more simply programmable than Emacs. You can reprogram it while it is running.




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