Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor

Re:Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor by wffurr on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:00PM (#41489867)

I tried but couldn't figure it out from the docs. It's unclear if the selection mode is sticky or is required before each command. e.g. wl would be "next word". I don't know if the command is "wl wl wl wl wl" or "wl l l l l" or if there's a "repeat movement" command.

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Re:Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor by hou32hou on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:31PM (#41490204)

Selection modes are sticky, so it would be “w l l l l l”

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Re:Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor by kragen on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:23PM (#41492448)

so sometimes it's just l l l l l, but other times that does a different movement, depending on what mode you're in? how many different things can l l l l l do? are there situations where two of them look the same so you might continue to believe you are in a different mode than you are?

this kind of thing might be a good ux tradeoff but I think you'd have to validate it empirically to see how much the extra cognitive load slows user task completion

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Re:Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor by wffurr on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @07:04AM (#41499507)

Yes, but there’s a visual indicator what the selection mode is, which helped in my brief experimentation.

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