Re:Show HN: Rebase-editor, a simple CLI app specifically for...
by eridius on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:47PM
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The time you spent writing this app is probably good experience for writing other things though. And of course someone who's using nano or pico as their editor might find this useful.
Also I tried to make this app to have it do only one thing and do that one thing well. With no config, and no learning how to use it. Arrows to find your line, custom keys to change the action-word. Shift to select multiple lines, Ctrl to move/reorder line(s) and some extra niceties like undo/redo. Of course you can do all that and much more with vim. My point is that it is a strength of the app that it doesn't do anything else. I don't need it to do anything else. It only needs to do interactive rebase.
But of course I don't expect vim and emacs aficionados to take much interest in this app. My core audience are those who have to google 'how to exit vim' every time they venture a rebase. ;)