GrollingGrakbor

Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:17PM (#32143867)

I've been using VSCode kinda on and off, but I haven't learned it properly yet. Do you think it's truly worth it? It seems to me like you'd use it mainly when you don't have access to a full IDE, so I haven't really found a niche yet.

Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? on Monday July 18, 2022 @04:23PM (#32143174)

Vifm looks really interesting, and admittedly I haven't tried ranger. Will give them a go, thanks!

The others are all very fine pieces of software I all use but imo not nearly on the same level. They're essentially programs with fancy keyshortcuts.

Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?

Posted by GrollingGrakbor on Monday July 18, 2022 @02:20PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm looking for software that is powerful, understandable, hackable, extensible, reliable, future-proof (few breaking updates) and feature-rich.The two tools I've found so far that come close to this are TiddlyWiki (notetaking) and Vim/Emacs (same text editor niche). TiddlyWiki loses some points on hackability because it's web technology and fairly sandboxed. Vim/Emacs are only for text,...

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