Re:Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor
by majewsky on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:08AM
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> NO MODES
That's a lie though. All GUIs have modes all over the place. For example:
- When I click into a text field, I go into Insert mode.
- When I tab away from the text field, I'm in some sort of Select mode.
These are clearly different modes because keys will do different things depending on the situation (e.g. [Space] in Select mode will click the focused button, but in Insert mode will insert text into the focused text field).
That's a lie though. All GUIs have modes all over the place. For example:
- When I click into a text field, I go into Insert mode.
- When I tab away from the text field, I'm in some sort of Select mode.
These are clearly different modes because keys will do different things depending on the situation (e.g. [Space] in Select mode will click the focused button, but in Insert mode will insert text into the focused text field).