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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by renox on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:04AM (#33149306)
> Those are by far the most important features for a text editor to have

The most important feature of an IDE is to be easy to use, having powerful functionalities is important too, but that's goes after.. VSCode has nailed the first point. Wake me up when (neo)vim/kakoune/Helix has a "list of tab view" similar to VSCode..

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by stackbutterflow on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:41AM (#33149501)
What's a list of tabview?
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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by renox on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:54PM (#33155132)
VSCode has a vertical 'subwindow' on the left which list all the opened tabs. I call this 'a tab view/list', I don't know what's the real name.

Usually I have between 10 and 20 tab opened, so the tablist is very helpful for navigating between tabs.

Unfortunately (AFAIK) the 'fast' editors (vim, kakoune, etc) don't provide such feature. Some have a tree list but not a tab list :-(

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by da_rob on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:27PM (#33156581)
Built something like this a few years ago: https://github.com/roblillack/vim-bufferlist
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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by renox on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @11:45AM (#33164780)
Thanks a lot, I don't know why I haven't been able to find it..
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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by kagevf on Monday October 10, 2022 @07:20PM (#33157539)
In vim, you can list open buffers with :b

Edit: sorry, it’s actually :ls

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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by renox on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @11:48AM (#33164815)
Sure, but I wanted to have an "always opened" subwindow like da_rob has implemented. I wonder why I haven't been able to find it before, I've tried!
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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by drekipus on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:13AM (#33149356)
(neo)vim/kakoune/Helix are not IDEs so you're going to be asleep for a long while yet.
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