Hey, Onivim contributor here. Sorry to hear about that syntax highlighting bug! It’s something we’ve received a lot of feedback on, and I know bryphe is planning on dedicating more resources to syntax highlighting fixes in the next couple of months. If you haven’t already, feel free to open an issue on GitHub (or comment on one that’s similar)! It helps us put our finger on where the editor falls short for people.
Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
by linsomniac on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:56AM
(#27365351)
Will do. I'm so new to Onivim that I wasn't even sure if it was "a problem" or "my problem", or how to get more info on it. It could be a problem with my setup, I try to keep my workstation fairly clean, but it is a working setup so it's no plain vanilla. Thanks for the reply.
Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
by linsomniac on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:47PM
(#27373820)
I did a bit more investigation, and found that "-f" outputs huge amounts of debugging information. In that I was able to see that after 2 movement commands it is detecting a file changed event, and the "newFiletype" is "plaintext" where it was previously "python".
It doesn't seem to happen if I rename the file I'm editing to have a ".py" suffix. "foo" suffers this fate, "foo.py" does not. Submitted to Issue tracker, didn't look like it was already in there.
Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
by sevengraff on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @11:53AM
(#27370154)
check out https://vim-bootstrap.com I'm a vim newbie but found it very useful.
Recently I've been playing with:
OniVim2: I'm not really sure what enhancements it has, but it does have a standard setup. Unfortunately, I'm running into some problem with my setup losing Python syntax highlighting. The ability to use VSCode extensions seems like a real winner, I've never been able to get into the weight of VSCode for my every day shell-oriented workflows. I don't program much, YMMV.
The Amix "awesome vim" setup. It is, unfortunately, TOO awesome. I set it up and some of my first movement commands were bringing up plugins (Ctrl-N and Ctrl-F). Didn't try it very long, it was a bit too much of a departure.
SpaceVim: I spent a while in this, it was working ok once I adapted a few things to it. It's a contender, probably behind Lunar.
LunarVim+NeoVim 0.5: This is looking promising so far, only used it a bit. But the TreeSitter plus LSP seems like a winning combination! Plus it works in the terminal, which OniVim does not. I do a fair bit of my (limited) programming via ssh from a chromebook (my couch compuer).