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Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator on Sunday March 01, 2026 @01:19PM (#47209236)
Really nice terminal.

Unfortunately scrolling in terminal apps via mouse wheel seems to be broken (on release and main branch), which is currently a blocker for me. Hope this will be fixed soon.

Re:Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:21PM (#33498076)
Space b for buffert list. Ctrl-n, Ctrl-p to navigate the list.
Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:20AM (#33152502)
The fastest way to do this in Helix would be `t<Enter>d`.

edit: Paragraph and other object movement/selection is done by the `[`, `]` menu. `]p` for the next paragraph. Surrounds are done by the `m` menu.

Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:26AM (#33148718)
The language server should work by just having rust-analyzer in you path. You can check with 'hx --health rust'.

It also only works on Rust projects, not single files. You have to open helix with the path to the project folder for it to work.

Re:Julia 1.6: what has changed since Julia 1.0? on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:50PM (#26134396)
Just checked. On my slightly dated laptop the import of these packages in Pluto takes 5 seconds with Julia 1.6. In general 1.6 is a huge improvements in compilation times and usability for me.
Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:54AM (#25848711)
Julia (normally 1-based), Polynomials package:

    julia> using Polynomials
    julia> p = Polynomial([1, 0, 2])
    Polynomial(1 + 2*x^2)

    julia> p[0]
    1
As long as it is domain specific and wrapped in custom types I don't really see an issue.
This is from October. As far as I know the issue has long been resolved.
They replaced it with a custom renderer: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-230