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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by ARandomerDude on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:14PM (#24976216)
The readme is confusing: it says it wants to take the best of all text editors, calling out Vim first (note that the editors are not listed alphabetically), and specifically mentioning modal editing. But the rest of the readme looks like vanilla `PageUp` and `Ctrl+C` instead of `GG` and `yy` to me. So...is it modal or not?
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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by Kaze404 on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:21PM (#24976258)
> Ox is easier to use than Vim because it doesn’t have modes where the keyboard is repurposed, however it takes the idea of being a keyboard-only editor and being able to act just like an IDE after some configuration.
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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by caymanjim on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:26PM (#24976286)
Modal refers to Vim's insert and normal [and visual, etc] modes, where [almost] anything typed in insert mode is entered into the buffer, and you can [sorta] only navigate and manipulate the text from normal mode. The command examples you quote don't really have any bearing on modality.
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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by ARandomerDude on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:38PM (#24976339)
> The command examples you quote don't really have any bearing on modality.

They do, actually. What happens if you type `yy` in a non-modal editor? You get "yy" in your text. It only works in Vim because you're in normal mode.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by msherry on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:19PM (#24976242)
"Ox is easier to use than Vim because it doesn’t have modes where the keyboard is repurposed, however it takes the idea of being a keyboard-only editor and being able to act just like an IDE after some configuration."
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