Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by skydhash on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:55AM (#47286814)

Vim is Emacs applied to Vi

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Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by umanwizard on Saturday March 07, 2026 @11:45AM (#47289207)

Not even close.

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Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by skydhash on Saturday March 07, 2026 @01:24PM (#47290126)

How is it not?

Scripting language? Check!

Custom commands? Check!

Windows management? Check!

Build tools integration and error-based navigation? Check!

File manager? Check!

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Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by johnisgood on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:16PM (#47290576)

Operating system? Check or not? :D

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Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by skydhash on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:24PM (#47290633)

Vim has stopped before that particular threshold. But if ever Neovim get a GUI version, I believe the community will soon have its own Gnus, Eww, and EMMS.

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Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by antiframe on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:46PM (#47291762)

I think the "Scripting language? Check!" is missing an important distinctions between Emacs and most other extensible editors. The proportion of the code editor features that are written in the configuration/extension language matters

Looking at the Emacs and NeoVim codebases in GitHub: Emacs is 74.6% ELisp or CommonLisp and NeoVim is 71.9% Lua or VimScript. Never mind, NeoVim is close!

But, can you at runtime modify the NeoVim core functions? Honest question because I've only used vim and VimScript was definately limited compared to elisp. If so, then I say NeoVim and Emacs are both highly-extensible editors.

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Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by umanwizard on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:14PM (#47304092)

None of those capture the essence of emacs, which is that it is a scripting language repl where the vast majority of functionality is implemented in that language and can be inspected, debugged and modified at runtime.

Emacs is a general purpose programming/computing environment that ships with a text editor and some other nice features. Vim is a text editor and some other nice features that ships with a scripting mechanism. Not the same thing.

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Re:Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST by gpvos on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:37PM (#47291231)

Nah. NeoVim a tiny little bit, maybe.

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