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Re:Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune by gnull on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:09PM (#36439802)
What is chordal editing? Google search didn't give me any results.

I agree that having different programs on you computer integrated and consistent is a good thing. Sorry for the reference to the old joke, but wouldn't all the things you list look better in a wishlist for an operating system instead of a text editor?

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Re:Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune by celrod on Friday June 23, 2023 @06:18PM (#36452928)
By chordal editing, I just meant pressing combinations of keys at the same time. Lots of editors support this to some degree, but most (AFAIK) are either modal, or don't support keyboard-driven workflows. One of the other classic emacs jokes is about how it can take key-combinations to extremes, e.g. https://xkcd.com/378/

I agree that I'm looking for a tiling window manager. This is what EXWM (the Emacs X Window Manager) is. The problem with things like i3, is that it is not integrated enough with editing and navigation of files.

I wish there was more in this space, as Emacs has some limitations for this purpose (e.g. multithreading), but AFAIK emacs stands alone.

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