How much would you pay for development of a text editor with these features?

Re:How much would you pay for development of a text editor w... by geoah on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:12PM (#29643275)

Option f was “there is already an editor like this ___” or something like that. That might have been a bit more polite.

Emacs imo doesn’t really match what op is proposing. Specifically the part about user experience.

> * conformat, easy to use, human interface guidelines (shortcuts, layout) > * all features ready to use, no initial configuration necessary

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Re:How much would you pay for development of a text editor w... by db48x on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @09:04PM (#29644748)

Nobody can agree on which software is easy to use, or which guidelines to follow, or which things count as configuration.

For example, if I put my source code in a different directory than you do, do I have to configure anything? Does that even count as configuration? My compiler is in /gnu/store/…, and yours is in /usr/bin. Oops, one of us has to configure something. You write in code Raku and I write in Self. Oops, more configuration. It’s an incoherent goal.

Emacs has 1.3 million lines of code that you don’t have to reinvent, all written in a language that is extensible and doesn’t need a lengthy compilation and restart cycle every time you make a change.

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