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Re:Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim by djur on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:51PM (#16675689)
Re:Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim by ziikutv on Sunday March 25, 2018 @09:35PM (#16675910)
Is that compatible with the editor OP is talking about? To clarify, that’s what above feedback was for. I don’t understand why people downvote comments without even knowing the context of the conversation.
Re:Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim by badosu on Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:16PM (#16676106)
I did not downvote you but here are some possible reasons:

1. If you're coming from regular vim you should expect having to bundle syntax files for languages that aren't hugely popular.

2. Shortcuts on a vim frontend should be pretty self-evident for a regular vim user. And some reading on the documentation as well until the 1.0 release.

3. This is a good point, but you did not clarify your point well as I assume you meant discoverability and ease-of-use of configuration.

Still, I think it's valuable feedback and actually captures some issues that are being worked now:

1. People coming from IDEs expect everything to work out-of-box and perhaps in the future some plugins will be bundled by default (configurable to not be the case for veteran users).

2. Recently a lot of features out of regular vim were added such as markdown preview, browser tab, file explorer and sneak mode; which have particular keybindings. For the moment they should be visible when you run the 'Quick Open' menu (`<c-p>`) but seems like there should be another way to discover these. An issue will be opened for this case.

3. Discoverability of options and configuration UI is a current issue indeed and there are plans to improve it (https://github.com/onivim/oni/issues/976).

I hope the downvotes do not discourage you from giving further feedback as it's best when given sincerely, issues are very welcome, thanks!

Re:Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim by djur on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:10AM (#16676983)
Yes, Oni is just an alternate frontend for vim and is compatible with Vim plugins (instructions here: https://github.com/onivim/oni/wiki/Plugins#installing-a-vim-...). I don't think there was anything wrong with your comment that merited downvotes.